Amritsar, Punjab Sunrise & Sunset Times

Amritsar, the spiritual heart of Punjab, is home to the magnificent Golden Temple (Sri Harmandir Sahib), which gleams at the centre of the sacred Amrit Sarovar pool. Founded by Guru Ram Das in 1577, the city sits on the vast Punjab plains near the India-Pakistan border, where the flat agricultural landscape stretches to every horizon. The climate brings scorching summers, a lush monsoon season, and cool, foggy winters with dramatic shifts in daylight.

Around the summer solstice, the sun rises at 05:24 and sets at 19:40, providing 14 hours 15 minutes of daylight — long, radiant evenings when pilgrims circle the Golden Temple's marble parikrama as golden light plays across the gilded dome. During the winter solstice, sunrise comes at 07:24 and sunset at 17:32, with about 10 hours 7 minutes of daylight. Winter mornings in Amritsar are often shrouded in thick Punjab fog, but when it clears, the low sun illuminates the wheat fields and the solemn grounds of Jallianwala Bagh in crystalline light.

The seasonal difference in sunrise times is 120 minutes, reflecting Amritsar's position in northern India where seasons shift markedly. During the morning blue hour (04:57 – 05:24) and golden hour (05:24 – 06:24), the first light catches the Golden Temple's gold-plated surface, turning the sacred pool into a mirror of amber and rose. In the evening golden hour (18:40 – 19:40) through blue hour (19:40 – 20:06), the sun sets toward the Wagah Border, painting the flat Punjab plains in shades of copper and violet while the langar halls glow warmly and the evening Palki Sahib ceremony begins under a sky graduating from gold to deep indigo — a spiritual twilight unlike any other in India.