For the next three months, the sun rises after 7 in Spokane

SPOKANE, Wash.– November 18th marks the start of an almost three-month period where we see very little daylight. Every day after this one until February 12th, the sun rises in Spokane after 7 o’clock.

Spokane gets a little over 9 hours of daylight in mid-November. That drops to less than 9 hours on the 22nd. The city will see its first sunset before 4 o’clock on December 1st and its earliest sunset on December 10th at 3:57.

Thanks to the irregular orbit and tilt of the Earth, the midday sun doesn’t always match midday on our clocks. In winter, the midday sun, the meridian, comes a minute or two later each day. This results in the earliest sunset coming before the winter solstice and the latest sunrise happening after the solstice. The solstice is December 21st, and the latest sunrise will be on New Year’s Day.