New Orleans, Louisiana Sunset Time Today

Sunrise time in New Orleans

The sun rises in New Orleans at 6:47 AM today and at 6:48 AM tomorrow (1 minute later than today).

First light comes before the sun itself: civil twilight — the blue-hour glow already bright enough to see by — begins at 6:24 AM.

For photographers, the morning golden hour — the warm, low-angle light until the sun climbs 6° — runs from 6:47 AM to 7:20 AM.

New Orleans daylight month by month

The 1st of each month in 2026, in local time.

New Orleans’s longest and shortest days

From 14h 5m of daylight on June 21, 2026 to 10h 12m on December 21, 2026.

How fast New Orleans gains and loses daylight

Daily rate at mid-month; net change across the month.

New Orleans golden hour & blue hour by season

The same altitude-based windows as today’s card, at each solstice and equinox.

Daylight saving time in New Orleans

Clocks move an hour; the daylight doesn’t change.

Why sunset time shifts in New Orleans

Sunset drifts through the year with Earth’s ~23.4° axial tilt — see the full daylight explainer.

In New Orleans, the longest day carries about 14h 5m of daylight and the shortest just 10h 12m — a swing of roughly 3h 53m between the June and December solstices. The farther a place sits from the equator, the wider that gap; the pace also isn’t steady, moving fastest near the equinoxes and barely at all near the solstices. Every figure here is computed from the sun’s position for New Orleans’s exact coordinates, in local time.