Where the sun rises earliest in Brazil today

On Thursday, October 29, 2026, the sunrise happens earliest in Aparecida do Taboado (MS), at 04:44 local time. Below are the 50 Brazilian cities, out of 5,571, where it comes first on the clock.

Top 50: earliest sunrise in Brazil

Why is the result what it is?

The ranking compares the local clock time of the sunrise in each of the 5,571 Brazilian municipalities for the Brasília date shown above. Today the first place on the list is Aparecida do Taboado (MS) at 04:44, while the 50th place, Itaquiraí (MS), has its sunrise at 04:52: the whole top 50 fits in a window of just 8 minutes. By state, the list has: Mato Grosso do Sul (20), Pernambuco (17) and Mato Grosso (6).

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. Aparecida do Taboado sits about 8.9° east of the 60°W meridian that defines its time zone (UTC−4), so, by longitude alone, solar noon arrives roughly 36 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 first sunrise of the country today is in Fernando de Noronha (PE) at 04:46. The ranking above uses each city's own clock instead, which is why the leader shows 04:44 locally but 05:44 in Brasília time, since it keeps a clock 1 hour behind Brasília. 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 5,087th by local clock, with sunrise at 05:46 (04:46 in Brasília time); Rio Branco (AC) follows Acre's UTC−5, two hours behind Brasília, and ranks 701st (05:01 local, 07:01 in Brasília time); Manaus (AM), at UTC−4, ranks 4,011th. 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.

See also

Compare with the other daily rankings below, go back to the rankings overview with the state-by-state table, or open the page of any city in the table for twilight times, golden hour and the next seven days. For the bigger picture, see sunrise and sunset times in Brazil and worldwide, Brazil's time zones and the start of the seasons.