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Asked: 2026-05-31T23:42:43+00:00

Is there a way to get sunrise and sunset times in PHP without having

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Is there a way to get sunrise and sunset times in PHP without having to deal with Zenith and GMT offsets?

The functions date_sunrise() and date_sun() asks for zenith and GMT which I don’t want to deal with.

Ideally I would simply write someSunriseFunction(<latitude>, <longitude>, <timezone>)
i.e. someSunriseFunction(34.30, -118.15, 'EST') would be for Los Angeles.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The timezone is pretty useless for this function. That information is already included in the latitude and longitude. What you need is the location and a timestamp, because the sun sets and rises at different times at different times of the year.

    And that’s exactly what date_sun_info gives you:

    date_sun_info ( int $time , float $latitude , float $longitude )
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