Hunting and Fishing Sun and Moon Times

Informational only. Not for navigation, safety, emergency, financial, medical, or legal decisions. Check the official source before you rely on it.

Get sunrise, sunset, civil twilight, moonrise, moonset, moon overhead and underfoot, moon phase, and solunar major and minor periods for any spot, one row per day. Enter a latitude and longitude and how many days you want. The time zone is found for you.

What you get (one row per day)

• Sunrise, sunset, civil dawn, civil dusk, solar noon, day length.
• Light start and light end: sunrise minus and sunset plus the minutes you choose (default 30). These are not legal shooting hours.
• Moonrise, moonset, moon overhead, moon underfoot, moon phase, percent lit, moon age.
• Solunar major periods (moon overhead and underfoot, plus or minus 1 hour) and minor periods (moonrise and moonset, plus or minus 30 minutes).
• Every time as ISO 8601 with the UTC offset, plus a plain local time like 7:03 AM.
• Self-check fields (qcStatus, qcNotes) and an error field. Days with no moonrise or moonset, and polar day or night, are noted, not dropped.

How to use (no code)

1. Type your place name, latitude and longitude (right-click a spot in any map app to copy them).
2. Pick a start date (empty means today) and the number of days.
3. Click Start. Download the table as CSV, Excel or JSON, or schedule it.

Accuracy

Times are computed from the JPL DE421 ephemeris with the open source Skyfield library. Rise and set times use the top edge of the sun or moon with standard refraction at sea level. In testing, sun times matched the U.S. Naval Observatory within 2 minutes and moon times within 3 minutes across Kentucky, Alaska (including polar night), Arizona, Maine (daylight saving change day) and Hawaii. Hills, trees and elevation change what you actually see.

Disclaimer

Informational only. Not for navigation, safety, emergency, financial, medical, or legal decisions. Check the official source before you rely on it. This is an independent tool by Standard Work Co. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any government agency named here. Agency names are used only to say where the data or method comes from. Provided "as is" with no warranty of any kind, including accuracy, completeness, or timeliness. Liability is limited as stated in the Apify Standard Actor Contract for this tool. Hunting: light start and light end are not legal shooting hours. Shooting hours, seasons and limits are set by your state wildlife agency; always follow its current regulations. Solunar periods are a traditional method and do not guarantee game or fish activity.

Data sources and credits

• JPL planetary ephemeris DE421 (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory), read with the Skyfield library by Brandon Rhodes (MIT license).
• Time zone lookup: timezonefinder (MIT license), based on timezone-boundary-builder data.
• Checked against the U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications API during testing.