ST. LOUIS – Minute by minute, the days are getting longer in St. Louis—and elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere—as we approach spring. We are a little more than two weeks away from setting our clocks back for daylight saving time, but post-6 p.m. sunsets in the St. Louis area will occur a few days beforehand.
In St. Louis, the sun will set after 6 p.m. for the first time this year on Wednesday, March 6. The earliest sunset in 2024 will be on Friday, Dec. 6, when the sun sets at 4:39:24 p.m. The shortest day of the year won’t be another two weeks when St. Louis gets 9 hours, 28 minutes, and 0 seconds of daylight on Dec. 20.
The days will continue to get longer until the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. On that day (June 20), we’ll have 14 hours, 52 minutes, and 13 seconds of daylight.