Wainwright Sunrise, Sunset and Moon in May 2026
Day length goes from 19 h 24 min on May 1 to 24 h 00 min on May 31. Sunrise moves from 4:58 AM to and sunset from 12:22 AM to .
Every day
Dawn and dusk are civil twilight (the sun 6 degrees below the horizon); golden hour starts when the evening sun is 6 degrees up; full dark is astronomical twilight, 18 degrees down. A blank moonrise or moonset means it falls on the next day.
| Date | Dawn | Sunrise | Sunset | Dusk | Golden hour | Full dark | Day length | Change | Moon | Moonrise | Moonset |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1 | 4:58 AM | 12:22 AM | 10:26 PM | 19 h 24 min | Full moon 9:24 AM | 12:48 AM | 3:29 AM | ||||
| May 2 | 4:51 AM | 12:28 AM | 10:30 PM | 19 h 37 min | +13.0 min | Full moon, 99% | |||||
| May 3 | 4:45 AM | 12:35 AM | 10:34 PM | 19 h 50 min | +13.0 min | Waning gibbous, 96% | |||||
| May 4 | 4:37 AM | 12:42 AM | 10:38 PM | 20 h 05 min | +15.0 min | Waning gibbous, 91% | |||||
| May 5 | 4:30 AM | 12:50 AM | 10:41 PM | 20 h 20 min | +15.0 min | Waning gibbous, 84% | |||||
| May 6 | 4:23 AM | 12:58 AM | 10:45 PM | 20 h 35 min | +15.0 min | Waning gibbous, 76% | |||||
| May 7 | 4:14 AM | 1:06 AM | 10:49 PM | 20 h 52 min | +17.0 min | Waning gibbous, 66% | |||||
| May 8 | 4:06 AM | 1:16 AM | 10:53 PM | 21 h 10 min | +18.0 min | Last quarter, 55% | |||||
| May 9 | 3:57 AM | 1:26 AM | 10:57 PM | 21 h 29 min | +19.0 min | Last quarter 1:11 PM | 7:11 AM | 10:49 AM | |||
| May 10 | 3:46 AM | 1:37 AM | 11:01 PM | 21 h 51 min | +22.0 min | Waning crescent, 34% | 6:12 AM | 1:24 PM | |||
| May 11 | 3:35 AM | 1:52 AM | 11:04 PM | 22 h 17 min | +26.0 min | Waning crescent, 25% | 5:36 AM | 3:34 PM | |||
| May 12 | 3:20 AM | 2:13 AM | 11:08 PM | 22 h 53 min | +36.0 min | Waning crescent, 16% | 5:07 AM | 5:42 PM | |||
| May 13 | Up all day | 11:12 PM | 24 h 00 min | +67.0 min | Waning crescent, 9% | 4:37 AM | 8:00 PM | ||||
| May 14 | Up all day | 11:16 PM | 24 h 00 min | +0.0 min | Waning crescent, 4% | 4:03 AM | 10:48 PM | ||||
| May 15 | Up all day | 11:20 PM | 24 h 00 min | +0.0 min | New moon, 1% | 3:05 AM | |||||
| May 16 | Up all day | 11:23 PM | 24 h 00 min | +0.0 min | New moon 12:02 PM | ||||||
| May 17 | Up all day | 11:27 PM | 24 h 00 min | +0.0 min | Waxing crescent, 1% | ||||||
| May 18 | Up all day | 11:31 PM | 24 h 00 min | +0.0 min | Waxing crescent, 5% | ||||||
| May 19 | Up all day | 11:35 PM | 24 h 00 min | +0.0 min | Waxing crescent, 10% | ||||||
| May 20 | Up all day | 11:38 PM | 24 h 00 min | +0.0 min | Waxing crescent, 18% | ||||||
| May 21 | Up all day | 11:42 PM | 24 h 00 min | +0.0 min | Waxing crescent, 27% | ||||||
| May 22 | Up all day | 11:45 PM | 24 h 00 min | +0.0 min | Waxing crescent, 37% | 11:13 AM | 5:47 AM | ||||
| May 23 | Up all day | 11:49 PM | 24 h 00 min | +0.0 min | First quarter 3:11 AM | 1:37 PM | 5:01 AM | ||||
| May 24 | Up all day | 11:53 PM | 24 h 00 min | +0.0 min | First quarter, 58% | 3:41 PM | 4:30 AM | ||||
| May 25 | Up all day | 11:56 PM | 24 h 00 min | +0.0 min | Waxing gibbous, 68% | 5:39 PM | 4:02 AM | ||||
| May 26 | Up all day | 11:59 PM | 24 h 00 min | +0.0 min | Waxing gibbous, 77% | 7:40 PM | 3:35 AM | ||||
| May 27 | Up all day | 12:03 AM | 24 h 00 min | +0.0 min | Waxing gibbous, 86% | 10:02 PM | 3:02 AM | ||||
| May 28 | Up all day | 12:06 AM | 24 h 00 min | +0.0 min | Waxing gibbous, 92% | 2:10 AM | |||||
| May 29 | Up all day | 12:09 AM | 24 h 00 min | +0.0 min | Waxing gibbous, 97% | ||||||
| May 30 | Up all day | 12:13 AM | 24 h 00 min | +0.0 min | Full moon, 100% | ||||||
| May 31 | Up all day | 12:16 AM | 24 h 00 min | +0.0 min | Full moon 12:46 AM |
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Sources
Computed with the NOAA solar position equations and the lunar methods of Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms, for a flat horizon; hills and buildings delay a real sunrise.