HM Nautical Almanac Office: Miscellanea

HM Nautical Almanac Office: Miscellanea

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

On these pages, you can find information on matters arising from questions received by HM Nautical Almanac Office. Over time, we hope to add more material to these pages.

Currently, we have information on sunrise/set times across the United Kingdom. Maps showing the sunrise/sunset times or the middle of each month are given in addition to specific rise/set times for number of locations across the United Kingdom.

Information on twilights in the United Kingdom can also be found on these pages. This includes definitions of civil, nautical and astronomical twilights and when they occur across the United Kingdom. A table of daily sunrise/set, moonrise/set and twilight times for locations across the British Isles is also provided.

Our current world time zone map is also available on these pages.