Sydney’s Pacific beaches face east — Bondi, Tamarama, and Coogee are sunrise shores. The harbour is a maze: Mrs Macquarie’s Chair sees both the Opera House at dawn and warm evening light, while the inner west and some north-shore points are better at dusk. Australia/Sydney uses DST. Southern Hemisphere seasons apply: December is the long-evening summer. Official times on the Sydney city page assume a flat horizon; Bondi’s headlands and the Opera House sails hide or delay the disk. This guide is where to stand.
Live clocks for Sydney stay on the city page — not duplicated here:
Today's sunrise time in Sydney Today's sunset time in Sydney Popular sunrise & sunset places in Sydney
East-facing water, desert, or a ridge that is open at dawn. Today's sunrise in Sydney is 06:19 AM (Australia/Sydney).
East-facing Pacific. The city’s default sunrise beach: Icebergs pool, headlands, and the disk out of the water.
This is not a sunset-over-ocean beach. For dusk, change shore. The Sydney sunrise time is the alarm; walk south toward Icebergs for the pool frame.
Royal Botanic Garden headland. Opera House and Harbour Bridge in morning light — the postcard that is not Bondi.
Dawn here is harbour geometry, not open-ocean disk. Arrive before civil dawn; tripods cluster on the rock.
Same east coast, smaller beaches. Coogee’s headlands give a slightly different azimuth than Bondi.
Weekdays. Same Pacific sunrise rule as Bondi.
South Head. You can see ocean dawn and still be on the harbour side for later coffee. A different suburb, same clock.
Gap and Camp Cove angles. Wind on South Head is real.
West-facing water, caldera, or skyline. Today's sunset is 05:35 PM.
Millers Point park above The Rocks. Harbour dusk with bridge and water — a west-leaning city sunset.
The Opera House is not the main silhouette from here (that is Mrs Macquarie’s in the morning). This is the western harbour light.
North Shore. Bridge and CBD reflections at golden hour. A classic dusk, not a Bondi dawn.
Look back at the city. Evening golden hour on the Sydney page is the window.
The sails pick up warm side light; the disk may set inland of the harbour. Stay for blue hour when the House lights come on.
Sunset here is not Bondi-style ocean. It is architecture and afterglow.
A moving or island viewpoint west in the harbour. Useful when the Garden is packed.
Ferry times versus solar times — the clock on the city page does not wait for the timetable.
Opera House at dawn.
Pool and Pacific sunrise.
Ocean and harbour in one morning.
The Rocks dusk over the harbour.
Bridge and city at golden hour.
Sails in warm light, then blue hour.
Pacific dawn and Icebergs.
Smaller east beach, same ocean.
Headlands and a slightly different angle.
North-shore harbour sand. Dusk over water without a Pacific west coast (Sydney’s open ocean is east).
September–November and March–May: milder, often clearer. Summer (Dec–Feb) is late sunsets, beach crowds, and humid haze. Winter dawns are later and the air can be crystal after a front. DST starts and ends in early October and early April — recheck the Sydney page those weekends.
For the +6° to −4° window anywhere on Earth, use the golden hour calculator. For indigo twilight, see the blue hour guide.
On August 29, 2026, sunrise is 06:19 AM and morning golden hour is 06:03 AM – 06:52 AM (civil dawn 05:53 AM). Coordinates: -33.8688°, 151.2093°.
For tomorrow, the month calendar, azimuth, and day length, open today's sunrise time in Sydney.
On August 29, 2026, sunset is 05:35 PM and evening golden hour is 05:01 PM – 05:50 PM. Official sunset assumes a flat horizon; cliffs, towers, and palms can hide the disk earlier.
Open today's sunset time in Sydney before you book a taxi or a deck slot.