Where does the sun set earliest in Brazil today?

Among the 5,571 municipalities, Cabedelo (PB) has the earliest sunset by local clock today, at 17:13. The 50th place, Pureza (RN), is at 17:14, only 1 minute apart.

And at the other extreme?

At the opposite end of the list is Barra do Quaraí (RS) with 19:10 (latest sunset). The gap between the two extremes today is 117 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 2,571st on its UTC−2 clock and Rio Branco ranks 783rd 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 3,390th of 5,571 in this list, with sunset at 18:14. 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 (2026-10-29). 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 Sets Earliest in Brazil Today: Top 50

On Thursday, October 29, 2026, the sunset happens earliest in Cabedelo (PB), 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 29, 2026 (local time in each city)
#	City	UF	Local time	In Brasília	Day length
1	Cabedelo	PB	17:13	—	12h 20min
2	Baía Formosa	RN	17:13	—	12h 19min
3	Lucena	PB	17:13	—	12h 20min
4	Baía da Traição	PB	17:13	—	12h 19min
5	Lábrea	AM	17:13	19:13	12h 21min
6	Tibau do Sul	RN	17:13	—	12h 18min
7	João Pessoa	PB	17:13	—	12h 20min
8	Maxaranguape	RN	17:13	—	12h 17min
9	Natal	RN	17:13	—	12h 18min
10	Vila Flor	RN	17:13	—	12h 19min
11	Senador Georgino Avelino	RN	17:13	—	12h 18min
12	Pitimbu	PB	17:13	—	12h 21min
13	Marcação	PB	17:13	—	12h 20min
14	Mataraca	PB	17:13	—	12h 19min
15	Rio do Fogo	RN	17:13	—	12h 17min
16	Arês	RN	17:13	—	12h 18min
17	Bayeux	PB	17:13	—	12h 20min
18	Conde	PB	17:13	—	12h 20min
19	Canguaretama	RN	17:13	—	12h 19min
20	Nísia Floresta	RN	17:13	—	12h 18min
21	Extremoz	RN	17:13	—	12h 17min
22	Parnamirim	RN	17:13	—	12h 18min
23	Santa Rita	PB	17:13	—	12h 20min
24	Goianinha	RN	17:13	—	12h 19min
25	Alhandra	PB	17:14	—	12h 21min
26	São José de Mipibu	RN	17:14	—	12h 18min
27	Ilha de Itamaracá	PE	17:14	—	12h 21min
28	Touros	RN	17:14	—	12h 16min
29	Rio Tinto	PB	17:14	—	12h 20min
30	São Gonçalo do Amarante	RN	17:14	—	12h 18min
31	Caaporã	PB	17:14	—	12h 21min
32	Macaíba	RN	17:14	—	12h 18min
33	Mamanguape	PB	17:14	—	12h 20min
34	Pedro Velho	RN	17:14	—	12h 19min
35	Ceará-Mirim	RN	17:14	—	12h 17min
36	Itapissuma	PE	17:14	—	12h 22min
37	Monte Alegre	RN	17:14	—	12h 18min
38	Paulista	PE	17:14	—	12h 22min
39	Igarassu	PE	17:14	—	12h 22min
40	Olinda	PE	17:14	—	12h 22min
41	Cruz do Espírito Santo	PB	17:14	—	12h 20min
42	Abreu e Lima	PE	17:14	—	12h 22min
43	Goiana	PE	17:14	—	12h 21min
44	Espírito Santo	RN	17:14	—	12h 19min
45	Recife	PE	17:14	—	12h 22min
46	Capim	PB	17:14	—	12h 20min
47	Brejinho	RN	17:14	—	12h 18min
48	Montanhas	RN	17:14	—	12h 19min
49	Jundiá	RN	17:14	—	12h 19min
50	Pureza	RN	17:14	—	12h 17min

At the other extreme: latest sunset

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

Last 10 places
#	City	UF	Local time
5571	Barra do Quaraí	RS	19:10
5570	Uruguaiana	RS	19:08
5569	Quaraí	RS	19:06
5568	Itaqui	RS	19:05
5567	Sant'Ana do Livramento	RS	19:03
5566	Maçambará	RS	19:03
5565	Alegrete	RS	19:02
5564	São Borja	RS	19:02
5563	Manoel Viana	RS	19:01
5562	Garruchos	RS	19:00

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 Cabedelo (PB) at 17:13, while the 50th place, Pureza (RN), has its sunset at 17:14: the whole top 50 fits in a window of just 1 minute. By state, the list has: Rio Grande do Norte (25), Paraíba (16) and Pernambuco (8).

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. Cabedelo sits about 10.2° east of the 45°W meridian that defines its time zone (UTC−3), 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 19:47. 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 2,571st by local clock, with sunset at 18:00 (17:00 in Brasília time); Rio Branco (AC) follows Acre's UTC−5, two hours behind Brasília, and ranks 783rd (17:28 local, 19:28 in Brasília time); Manaus (AM), at UTC−4, ranks 1,902nd. 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 sets earliest in Brazil today