suntrack is a command line tool that lets you know when the sun rises and sets in a given city.
shell
$ cargo install suntrack
``` A command line tool that lets you know when the sun rises and sets in a city on any given date
Usage: suntrack [OPTIONS]
Arguments:
Options:
-l, --local Use local time instead of UTC
-d, --date
Example:
shell
$ suntrack stockholm
🌍 City Stockholm (SE)
🌄 Sunrise 2022-12-29 07:45:00 UTC
🌆 Sunset 2022-12-29 13:54:03 UTC
If more than one match is found, suntrack lets you disambiguate with multiple choices. For instance:
shell
$ suntrack london
Found 6 options for london:
1) London (US)
2) London Grove (US)
3) Londonderry (US)
4) London Colney (GB)
5) London (CA)
6) London (GB)
Input number:
6
🌍 City London (GB)
🌄 Sunrise 2022-12-29 08:06:11 UTC
🌆 Sunset 2022-12-29 15:58:29 UTC
If you want to use your local system time instead of UTC, you can use the flag -l or --local.
For example, if you were based in New South Wales and wanted to check sunrise and sunset times for Sydney, the times would be displayed using UTC+11.
shell
$ suntrack -l sydney
🌍 City Sydney (AU)
🌄 Sunrise 2022-12-29 05:45:10 +11:00
🌆 Sunset 2022-12-29 20:08:23 +11:00
suntrack defaults to today's sunrise and sunset times. However, you can use the -d <DATE> or --date <DATE> flag to pick an arbitrary date in the format YYYY-MM-DD.
shell
$ suntrack -d 2025-08-15 'London (GB)'
🌍 City London (GB)
🌄 Sunrise 2025-08-15 04:46:14 UTC
🌆 Sunset 2025-08-15 19:23:59 UTC
suntrack relies on the basic version of the World Cities Database, which is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.