Sunrise, brahma muhurta and the lunar day in Sydney

New South Wales, Australia · -33.87°, 151.21° · Australia/Sydney

Written and reviewed by The Kriya Yogi · Updated 21 September 2026

Friday, November 6, 2026

Brahma muhurta

4:16 AM – 5:04 AM

Sunrise

5:52 AM

Sunset

7:28 PM

Daylight

13h 36m

Lunar day (tithi)

Dvadashi

Fortnight

Waning (krishna)

Moon

Waning crescent · 12% lit

Nakshatra

Uttara Phalguni

Sydney is in the southern hemisphere, so its seasons — and its earliest and latest sunrises — run opposite to the northern cities on this list.

Sydney has a substantial and well-established yoga community, with a strong outdoor culture that takes full advantage of the city's beaches and harbourside parks for group practice whenever the weather cooperates. Its temperate climate means winters are mild by comparison with the northern-hemisphere cities on this list, so outdoor pre-dawn practice remains realistic even in the coolest months, while summer brings genuine heat and strong UV that make shade and hydration real considerations for any session held after sunrise. As noted above, Sydney's seasons run opposite the majority of the cities on this list, so a practitioner following seasonal cues from Northern Hemisphere yoga writing — treating December as a time to turn inward, for instance — is working against, rather than with, the actual season outside their window.

The next ten days in Sydney

Times are local to Sydney and recalculated every time this page loads. The lunar day shown is the one in force at local sunrise.

Date	Brahma muhurta	Sunrise	Sunset	Daylight	Tithi	Moon	Nakshatra
Fri, Nov 6	4:16 AM – 5:04 AM	5:52 AM	7:28 PM	13h 36m	DvadashiWaning (krishna)	12% · waning crescent	Uttara Phalguni
Sat, Nov 7	4:15 AM – 5:03 AM	5:51 AM	7:29 PM	13h 38m	TrayodashiWaning (krishna)	6% · waning crescent	Hasta
Sun, Nov 8	4:14 AM – 5:02 AM	5:50 AM	7:30 PM	13h 40m	ChaturdashiWaning (krishna)	2% · waning crescent	Chitra
Mon, Nov 9Amavasya (new moon)	4:13 AM – 5:01 AM	5:49 AM	7:30 PM	13h 41m	AmavasyaWaning (krishna)	0% · new moon	Svati
Tue, Nov 10	4:12 AM – 5:00 AM	5:48 AM	7:31 PM	13h 43m	PratipadaWaxing (shukla)	0% · new moon	Vishakha
Wed, Nov 11	4:12 AM – 5:00 AM	5:48 AM	7:32 PM	13h 45m	DvitiyaWaxing (shukla)	2% · waxing crescent	Anuradha
Thu, Nov 12	4:11 AM – 4:59 AM	5:47 AM	7:33 PM	13h 47m	TritiyaWaxing (shukla)	6% · waxing crescent	Jyeshtha
Fri, Nov 13	4:10 AM – 4:58 AM	5:46 AM	7:34 PM	13h 48m	ChaturthiWaxing (shukla)	11% · waxing crescent	Mula
Sat, Nov 14	4:09 AM – 4:57 AM	5:45 AM	7:35 PM	13h 50m	PanchamiWaxing (shukla)	18% · waxing crescent	Purva Ashadha
Sun, Nov 15	4:09 AM – 4:57 AM	5:45 AM	7:36 PM	13h 51m	ShashthiWaxing (shukla)	25% · waxing crescent	Uttara Ashadha

How far the window moves across the year here

At Sydney's latitude of -33.9°, the June solstice brings sunrise at roughly 7:01 AM with about 9h 54m of daylight, while the December solstice brings sunrise at roughly 5:41 AM with about 14h 24m. Both figures are computed for this location, not averaged from anywhere else. If the pre-dawn window is out of reach in one half of the year, the tradition's own priority applies: Patanjali's guidance (Yoga Sutras 1.14) is that practice takes hold through long, uninterrupted, earnest attention — consistency first, ideal hour second.

In practice, most people who keep an early routine here do not chase the brahma muhurta window exactly on the days when it falls hardest against their sleep or their working hours. A workable pattern is to pick a fixed clock time that lands inside the window for most of the year, adjust it by a season if the drift becomes extreme, and treat the days it falls slightly outside the ideal 96-to-48-minute band as still worthwhile rather than wasted — the texts describe brahma muhurta as favorable, not as the only valid hour. Seated meditation, pranayama and a short asana warm-up all transfer reasonably well between a strict pre-dawn slot and a slightly later one; what tends to break a habit is not timing drift but skipping the day entirely because the ideal moment has already passed.

Practice timing in Sydney

+ What time is brahma muhurta in Sydney today?

Working back from a computed sunrise of 5:52 AM, the window runs from about 4:16 AM to 5:04 AM local time — 96 to 48 minutes before sunrise. It moves every day with the Sun, so check the table rather than fixing it in your head.

+ Which lunar day is it in Sydney today?

At local sunrise it is Dvadashi, in the waning (krishna) fortnight, with the Moon about 12% illuminated in Uttara Phalguni. Tithis run between roughly 19 and 26 hours, so a single date can straddle two; the label here is the one in force at sunrise, which is the usual convention.

+ How much does sunrise move across the year in Sydney?

At this latitude, the June solstice sunrise falls around 7:01 AM with about 9h 54m of daylight, and the December solstice sunrise around 5:41 AM with about 14h 24m. That spread is exactly why a sunrise-anchored routine and a clock-anchored one diverge.

+ Are these times exact?

Sunrise and sunset are computed for a sea-level horizon and should be within a minute or two of an observatory table; hills, buildings and altitude shift what you actually see. Tithi and nakshatra use truncated lunar series, so near a boundary a full panchanga may label the day differently. Nothing here is intended for ritual muhurta determination.

Method

Sunrise, solar noon and sunset: the standard sunrise equation, using the −0.833° altitude convention for the apparent upper limb and refraction at a sea-level horizon.
Lunar day and nakshatra: solar and lunar ecliptic longitudes from truncated Meeus series (Jean Meeus, "Astronomical Algorithms"), with tithi as 12° steps of elongation and nakshatra as 13°20′ steps of sidereal longitude under a linear Lahiri-style ayanamsa approximation.
Brahma muhurta: the 48-minute muhurta ending one muhurta before sunrise. Conventions vary between teachers; this is the most common arithmetic definition.
Not for ritual muhurta determination — for that, use a panchanga computed within your own tradition.

Timing guidance on this page is traditional and practical, not medical. Nothing here is a religious ruling or a substitute for a panchanga from your own lineage.