Sunrise 5:43 am and sunset 5:48 pm in Ho Chi Minh City
Today, Friday, September 25, 2026, the sun rises in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam at 5:43 am and sets at 5:48 pm. That is 12 hours 5 minutes of daylight, with the sun at its highest at 11:45 am. Ho Chi Minh City is losing 36 seconds of daylight a day at the moment.
Sunrise time Ho Chi Minh City
The sun rises in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam at 5:43 am today. That is the moment the top edge of the solar disc first clears a flat horizon, which is the definition every almanac uses and the one the times here are computed to. The sky starts to lighten well before that: civil twilight, the point at which you can read outside without a light, begins at 5:22 am.
Sunrise here is moving later at the moment. Over the year the earliest sunrise in Ho Chi Minh City falls on May 30, 2026 at 5:30 am, and the latest on January 27, 2026 at 6:17 am. Neither of those dates is the solstice, and that surprises people. The longest day in Ho Chi Minh City is June 21, 2026, but the earliest sunrise and the latest sunset never sit exactly on it, because the equation of time slides underneath the whole pattern.
Sunset time Ho Chi Minh City
The sun sets in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam at 5:48 pm. Light lingers after that: civil twilight runs until 6:09 pm, and full darkness, meaning the end of astronomical twilight, arrives at 6:58 pm.
The latest sunset of 2026 in Ho Chi Minh City is on July 12, 2026 at 6:20 pm, and the earliest is on November 17, 2026 at 5:27 pm. The gap between those two readings is the whole story of the year in one line, and it is wider here than at a city nearer the equator and narrower than at one nearer the pole.
Daylight and solar noon in Ho Chi Minh City
Daylight today runs to 12 hours 5 minutes, from sunrise to sunset. Solar noon, the instant the sun crosses the local meridian and stands at its highest, is at 11:45 am, which is 15 minutes before clock noon. That gap is not an error. It is Ho Chi Minh City sitting at 106.63 degrees east while its clock is set to Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh, plus the equation of time, which today is 8.2 minutes ahead of mean time.
The sun's declination today is -0.85 degrees, meaning it stands directly overhead at that latitude somewhere on the globe. Ho Chi Minh City is at 10.82 degrees north, inside the tropics, north of the equator, which is why the day here is 12h 05m rather than the flat twelve hours the equator gets. Across 2026 the length of the day in Ho Chi Minh City swings by 1 hour 16 minutes, from 11h 30m on December 22, 2026 to 12h 46m on June 21, 2026.
Sunrise and sunset in Ho Chi Minh City month by month
The table below is the 15th of each month of 2026, computed for Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam rather than for the zone as a whole. Reading down the daylight column shows the shape of the year: short days around January, long days around July.
| Date | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight | Solar noon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 15 | 6:16 am | 5:50 pm | 11h 34m | 12:03 pm |
| February 15 | 6:14 am | 6:01 pm | 11h 47m | 12:08 pm |
| March 15 | 6:01 am | 6:04 pm | 12h 03m | 12:02 pm |
| April 15 | 5:43 am | 6:05 pm | 12h 22m | 11:54 am |
| May 15 | 5:31 am | 6:08 pm | 12h 37m | 11:50 am |
| June 15 | 5:31 am | 6:17 pm | 12h 45m | 11:54 am |
| July 15 | 5:38 am | 6:20 pm | 12h 42m | 11:59 am |
| August 15 | 5:44 am | 6:12 pm | 12h 29m | 11:58 am |
| September 15 | 5:43 am | 5:54 pm | 12h 11m | 11:49 am |
| October 15 | 5:42 am | 5:36 pm | 11h 54m | 11:39 am |
| November 15 | 5:49 am | 5:27 pm | 11h 38m | 11:38 am |
| December 15 | 6:04 am | 5:33 pm | 11h 30m | 11:48 am |
The extremes of the year in Ho Chi Minh City
| Reading | Time or length | Date in 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Longest day | 12 hours 46 minutes | June 21, 2026 |
| Shortest day | 11 hours 30 minutes | December 22, 2026 |
| Earliest sunrise | 5:30 am | May 30, 2026 |
| Latest sunrise | 6:17 am | January 27, 2026 |
| Earliest sunset | 5:27 pm | November 17, 2026 |
| Latest sunset | 6:20 pm | July 12, 2026 |
The sun rises and sets on every one of the 365 days of 2026 in Ho Chi Minh City. No day here is ever entirely without a sunrise, which starts to happen only above roughly 66.56 degrees of latitude.
Golden hour and blue hour in Ho Chi Minh City today
Golden hour is the stretch when the sun sits between six degrees above the horizon and four below it, which is when the light is low, warm and soft. Blue hour follows it, from four degrees below down to six, when the sun is gone but the sky still carries a blue cast. Both happen twice a day, once either side of sunrise and sunset.
| Band | Time in Ho Chi Minh City |
|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 5:22 am to 5:30 am |
| Morning golden hour | 5:30 am to 6:10 am |
| Evening golden hour | 5:20 pm to 6:01 pm |
| Evening blue hour | 6:01 pm to 6:09 pm |
Neither is literally an hour. Each band is as long as the sun takes to cross those few degrees, so it is short near the equator where the sun drops steeply and long at high latitude where it slides in at a shallow angle. This evening it runs 41 minutes in Ho Chi Minh City.
Twilight times in Ho Chi Minh City today
| Stage | Morning | Evening | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|
| Astronomical twilight | 4:33 am | 6:58 pm | sun 18 degrees down, the sky is as dark as it gets |
| Nautical twilight | 4:57 am | 6:33 pm | sun 12 degrees down, the horizon is just visible at sea |
| Civil twilight | 5:22 am | 6:09 pm | sun 6 degrees down, bright enough to read outside |
Twilight is longer the further a place is from the equator, because the sun cuts down through the horizon at a shallower angle. In Ho Chi Minh City the stretch from the start of civil twilight to sunrise is 21 minutes.
Solstices and equinoxes in Ho Chi Minh City
| Event | Date | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | March 20 | 5:58 am | 6:04 pm | 12h 06m |
| June solstice | June 21 | 5:32 am | 6:18 pm | 12h 46m |
| September equinox | September 23 | 5:43 am | 5:49 pm | 12h 06m |
| December solstice | December 22 | 6:07 am | 5:37 pm | 11h 30m |
The equinoxes are the useful sanity check on any sun calculation: on those two days every place on Earth gets close to twelve hours between sunrise and sunset. It is not exactly twelve, and the reason is the same refraction and disc-edge convention that sets the times on this page. Sunrise is timed when the upper limb appears rather than the centre, and the atmosphere bends the image of the sun up over the horizon before it is geometrically there, so both ends of the day are pushed outwards by a few minutes. The seasons page has the exact instants.
How these times are worked out
The times on this page come from the NOAA solar position algorithm, the standard reduction of the calculations in Meeus's Astronomical Algorithms. The chain is short and has no fitted constants in it: the sun's mean longitude and mean anomaly at the instant, the equation of centre to get from the mean to the true position, a correction for nutation to get the apparent longitude, the true obliquity of the ecliptic, and from those two the declination and the equation of time. Sunrise and sunset are then solar noon plus and minus the hour angle at which the sun reaches an altitude of -0.833 degrees.
That number, -0.833, is doing real work. Half of it, -0.2667 degrees, is the apparent radius of the sun, because sunrise is defined by the upper edge of the disc and not its centre. The other -0.5667 degrees is mean atmospheric refraction at the horizon, which lifts the image of the sun by roughly its own diameter. Ignore both and every sunrise on this site would be three or four minutes late and every sunset three or four minutes early.
The conversion into Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh is done through the IANA time zone database that ships inside Node, at the actual instant of the event, so daylight saving, half hour offsets and rule changes are all handled by the database rather than by an offset written down here. Ho Chi Minh City does not move its clocks at all. The zone stays at UTC+7 all year, so every change in the table above is the sun moving and not the clock.
Questions
- What time is sunset in Ho Chi Minh City?
- 5:48 pm today, September 25, 2026.
- What time is sunrise in Ho Chi Minh City?
- 5:43 am today.
- When is golden hour in Ho Chi Minh City today?
- The evening golden hour runs 5:20 pm to 6:01 pm, and the morning one 5:30 am to 6:10 am.
- What time does the sun set in Ho Chi Minh City today?
- At 5:48 pm on September 25, 2026.
- What time does the sun rise in Ho Chi Minh City today?
- At 5:43 am, giving 12 hours 5 minutes of daylight.
- How many hours of daylight does Ho Chi Minh City get today?
- 12 hours 5 minutes, and the city is losing 36 seconds of daylight a day.
- Why is solar noon in Ho Chi Minh City not at 12:00?
- Because Ho Chi Minh City sits at 106.63 degrees east while its clock is set to a zone meridian somewhere else, and because the equation of time shifts apparent noon by up to about 16 minutes either way through the year. Today the two effects put solar noon at 11:45 am.
- When is the longest day of the year in Ho Chi Minh City?
- June 21, 2026, with 12 hours 46 minutes of daylight. The shortest is December 22, 2026 with 11 hours 30 minutes.
- Are these times adjusted for daylight saving?
- Ho Chi Minh City does not observe daylight saving, so the question does not arise. The zone stays at UTC+7 all year.
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