Where does the sun rise latest in Brazil today?

Among the 5,571 municipalities, Jacareacanga (PA) has the latest sunrise by local clock today, at 06:34. The 50th place, Bossoroca (RS), is at 06:16, only 19 minutes apart.

And at the other extreme?

At the opposite end of the list is Lábrea (AM) with 05:02 (earliest sunrise). The gap between the two extremes today is 92 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 1,900th on its UTC−2 clock and Rio Branco ranks 4,909th 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 2,054th of 5,571 in this list, with sunrise at 05:52. 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.

Where the Sun Rises Latest in Brazil Today: Top 50

On Saturday, October 3, 2026, the sunrise happens latest in Jacareacanga (PA), at 06:34 local time. Below are the 50 Brazilian cities, out of 5,571, where it comes last on the clock.

Top 50: latest sunrise in Brazil

Today's ranking, October 3, 2026 (local time in each city)
#	City	UF	Local time	In Brasília	Day length
1	Jacareacanga	PA	06:34	—	12h 10min
2	Faro	PA	06:32	—	12h 07min
3	Terra Santa	PA	06:31	—	12h 07min
4	Juruti	PA	06:29	—	12h 07min
5	Oriximiná	PA	06:28	—	12h 07min
6	Itaituba	PA	06:28	—	12h 09min
7	Trairão	PA	06:28	—	12h 09min
8	Óbidos	PA	06:27	—	12h 07min
9	Aveiro	PA	06:25	—	12h 08min
10	Barra do Quaraí	RS	06:25	—	12h 26min
11	Curuá	PA	06:25	—	12h 07min
12	Novo Progresso	PA	06:25	—	12h 10min
13	Belterra	PA	06:24	—	12h 08min
14	Uruguaiana	RS	06:24	—	12h 26min
15	Rurópolis	PA	06:24	—	12h 08min
16	Alenquer	PA	06:24	—	12h 07min
17	Santarém	PA	06:23	—	12h 07min
18	Mojuí dos Campos	PA	06:23	—	12h 08min
19	Itaqui	RS	06:22	—	12h 25min
20	Quaraí	RS	06:21	—	12h 27min
21	Placas	PA	06:21	—	12h 08min
22	Monte Alegre	PA	06:21	—	12h 07min
23	Maçambará	RS	06:20	—	12h 25min
24	São Borja	RS	06:20	—	12h 25min
25	Uruará	PA	06:19	—	12h 08min
26	Garruchos	RS	06:19	—	12h 25min
27	Alegrete	RS	06:19	—	12h 26min
28	Prainha	PA	06:19	—	12h 07min
29	Manoel Viana	RS	06:17	—	12h 26min
30	Sant'Ana do Livramento	RS	06:17	—	12h 27min
31	São Nicolau	RS	06:17	—	12h 25min
32	Amaturá	AM	06:17	07:17	12h 08min
33	Pirapó	RS	06:17	—	12h 25min
34	Santo Antônio das Missões	RS	06:17	—	12h 25min
35	Itacurubi	RS	06:17	—	12h 25min
36	Porto Xavier	RS	06:17	—	12h 24min
37	Unistalda	RS	06:16	—	12h 25min
38	Dezesseis de Novembro	RS	06:16	—	12h 25min
39	Porto Lucena	RS	06:16	—	12h 24min
40	Roque Gonzales	RS	06:16	—	12h 25min
41	Santo Antônio do Içá	AM	06:16	07:16	12h 08min
42	São Francisco de Assis	RS	06:16	—	12h 26min
43	São Paulo das Missões	RS	06:16	—	12h 25min
44	Porto Vera Cruz	RS	06:16	—	12h 24min
45	São Luiz Gonzaga	RS	06:16	—	12h 25min
46	Medicilândia	PA	06:16	—	12h 08min
47	São Pedro do Butiá	RS	06:16	—	12h 25min
48	Tonantins	AM	06:16	07:16	12h 08min
49	Campina das Missões	RS	06:16	—	12h 25min
50	Bossoroca	RS	06:16	—	12h 25min

At the other extreme: earliest sunrise

The last 10 places of this ranking, out of 5,571 municipalities, are the top 10 of the opposite ranking, Earliest sunrise.

Last 10 places
#	City	UF	Local time
5571	Lábrea	AM	05:02
5570	Ilha de Itamaracá	PE	05:02
5569	Olinda	PE	05:02
5568	Pitimbu	PB	05:02
5567	Paulista	PE	05:02
5566	Recife	PE	05:02
5565	Abreu e Lima	PE	05:03
5564	Cabedelo	PB	05:03
5563	Igarassu	PE	05:03
5562	Itapissuma	PE	05:03

Why is the result what it is?

The ranking compares the local clock time of the sunrise in each of the 5,571 Brazilian municipalities for the Brasília date shown above. Today the last place on the list is Jacareacanga (PA) at 06:34, while the 50th place, Bossoroca (RS), has its sunrise at 06:16: the whole top 50 fits in a window of just 19 minutes. By state, the list has: Rio Grande do Sul (26), Pará (21) and Amazonas (3).

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. Jacareacanga sits about 12.8° west of the 45°W meridian that defines its time zone (UTC−3), so, by longitude alone, solar noon arrives roughly 51 minutes after the clock says 12:00 and the whole solar day is shifted later. 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 first sunrise of the country today is in Fernando de Noronha (PE) at 04:54. The ranking above uses each city's own clock instead, which here coincides with Brasília time for the leader. 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 1,900th by local clock, with sunrise at 05:54 (04:54 in Brasília time); Rio Branco (AC) follows Acre's UTC−5, two hours behind Brasília, and ranks 4,909th (05:14 local, 07:14 in Brasília time); Manaus (AM), at UTC−4, ranks 2,599th. 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.

Where the sun rises latest in Brazil today