Where the sun sets earliest in Brazil today

Saturday, October 3, 20261st: Lábrea (AM) 17:1350th: Extremoz (RN) 17:15
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On Saturday, October 3, 2026, the sunset happens earliest in Lábrea (AM), at 17:13 local time. Below are the 50 Brazilian cities, out of 5,571, where it comes first on the clock.

Top 50: earliest sunset in Brazil

Today's ranking, October 3, 2026 (local time in each city)
#CityUFLocal timeIn BrasíliaDay length
1LábreaAM17:1319:1312h 10min
2CabedeloPB17:13—12h 10min
3PitimbuPB17:13—12h 10min
4LucenaPB17:13—12h 10min
5João PessoaPB17:13—12h 10min
6Ilha de ItamaracáPE17:13—12h 11min
7Baía da TraiçãoPB17:14—12h 10min
8CondePB17:14—12h 10min
9OlindaPE17:14—12h 11min
10AlhandraPB17:14—12h 10min
11BayeuxPB17:14—12h 10min
12PaulistaPE17:14—12h 11min
13CaaporãPB17:14—12h 10min
14Baía FormosaRN17:14—12h 10min
15ItapissumaPE17:14—12h 11min
16RecifePE17:14—12h 11min
17IgarassuPE17:14—12h 11min
18Abreu e LimaPE17:14—12h 11min
19Santa RitaPB17:14—12h 10min
20MarcaçãoPB17:14—12h 10min
21Vila FlorRN17:14—12h 10min
22MataracaPB17:14—12h 10min
23Tibau do SulRN17:14—12h 10min
24GoianaPE17:14—12h 10min
25CamaragibePE17:14—12h 11min
26Rio TintoPB17:14—12h 10min
27Senador Georgino AvelinoRN17:14—12h 10min
28CanguaretamaRN17:14—12h 10min
29São Lourenço da MataPE17:14—12h 11min
30Cruz do Espírito SantoPB17:14—12h 10min
31ArêsRN17:14—12h 10min
32Jaboatão dos GuararapesPE17:14—12h 11min
33NatalRN17:14—12h 09min
34MamanguapePB17:14—12h 10min
35Cabo de Santo AgostinhoPE17:14—12h 11min
36ItambéPE17:14—12h 10min
37Nísia FlorestaRN17:14—12h 10min
38GoianinhaRN17:14—12h 10min
39Pedras de FogoPB17:14—12h 10min
40AraçoiabaPE17:14—12h 11min
41CondadoPE17:14—12h 10min
42ItaquitingaPE17:14—12h 11min
43MaxaranguapeRN17:14—12h 09min
44CapimPB17:15—12h 10min
45IpojucaPE17:15—12h 11min
46MorenoPE17:15—12h 11min
47São José de MipibuRN17:15—12h 10min
48Pedro VelhoRN17:15—12h 10min
49ParnamirimRN17:15—12h 09min
50ExtremozRN17:15—12h 09min

Why is the result what it is?

The ranking compares the local clock time of the sunset in each of the 5,571 Brazilian municipalities for the Brasília date shown above. Today the first place on the list is Lábrea (AM) at 17:13, while the 50th place, Extremoz (RN), has its sunset at 17:15: the whole top 50 fits in a window of just 2 minutes. By state, the list has: Pernambuco (18), Paraíba (17) and Rio Grande do Norte (14).

Why does that city lead? The main reason is longitude inside the time zone. The Earth turns 15° per hour, so every degree of longitude shifts the Sun by 4 minutes, but a time zone uses a single clock for a band that is many degrees wide. Lábrea sits about 10.2° east of the 75°W meridian that defines its time zone (UTC−5), so, by longitude alone, solar noon arrives roughly 41 minutes before the clock says 12:00 and the whole solar day is shifted earlier. The second factor is latitude combined with the season: on dates like today the southern part of the country has the longer days, so southern cities tend to rise earlier and set later on the clock than northern ones at the same longitude. The effect is small near the Equator and grows toward the far south, and it reverses in the other half of the year.

Brazil spans from about 34.8°W (Pitimbu (PB), on the mainland coast) to 72.9°W (Mâncio Lima (AC)), roughly 2.5 hours of solar time. The easternmost point of the mainland is Ponta do Seixas, in João Pessoa (PB), where the first light of the day touches continental Brazil. On one common clock, Brasília time, the last sunset of the country today is in Marechal Thaumaturgo (AC) at 19:46. The ranking above uses each city's own clock instead, which is why the leader shows 17:13 locally but 19:13 in Brasília time, since it keeps a clock 2 hours behind Brasília. Brazil has four official clocks (UTC−2 to UTC−5), and none of them removes the natural gap between east and west.

Local time, time zones and Brasília time

Ranking by local clock, not by Brasília time. Fernando de Noronha (PE) uses UTC−2, one hour ahead of Brasília, and ranks 3,059th by local clock, with sunset at 18:03 (17:03 in Brasília time); Rio Branco (AC) follows Acre's UTC−5, two hours behind Brasília, and ranks 702nd (17:26 local, 19:26 in Brasília time); Manaus (AM), at UTC−4, ranks 2,477th. Brazil has four official clocks, so the table always shows the local clock time of each city, the one a resident would see on a wall clock. When a city's time zone differs from Brasília, the "In Brasília" column gives the same instant on Brasília time, which is useful to compare cities on a single timeline.

See also

Compare with the other daily rankings below, go back to the rankings overview with the state-by-state table, or open the page of any city in the table for twilight times, golden hour and the next seven days. For the bigger picture, see sunrise and sunset times in Brazil and worldwide, Brazil's time zones and the start of the seasons.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the sun set earliest in Brazil today?

Among the 5,571 municipalities, Lábrea (AM) has the earliest sunset by local clock today, at 17:13. The 50th place, Extremoz (RN), is at 17:15, only 2 minutes apart.

And at the other extreme?

At the opposite end of the list is Barra do Quaraí (RS) with 18:52 (latest sunset). The gap between the two extremes today is 99 minutes.

Why is the ranking made by local clock time?

Because that is the time people actually see. Brazil has four time zones, so the same instant shows different clock times: Fernando de Noronha ranks 3,059th on its UTC−2 clock and Rio Branco ranks 702nd on Acre's UTC−5 clock. The "In Brasília" column converts each city to Brasília time when the zone differs.

Where does Brasília (DF) rank today?

The capital ranks 3,478th of 5,571 in this list, with sunset at 18:08. Brasília lies at 15.8°S, 47.9°W.

Does this ranking change over the year?

Yes. It is recalculated every day for the Brasília date (2026-10-03). The order of the cities shifts with the seasons because the Sun moves between the hemispheres, and with the equation of time, a small seasonal drift of solar noon of up to about 16 minutes.

How are the times calculated?

With astronomical formulas (NOAA algorithm) applied to the coordinates of each municipality, using the Sun's center at 0.833° below the horizon, which includes atmospheric refraction and the Sun's radius. Terrain, altitude and local weather are not considered, so published times can differ by a minute or two.