NEW YORK (WABC) — Twice a year, the setting sun lines up with Manhattan’s streets to provide one of the most amazing sunset photos you can capture in New York City.<\/p>\n
Manhattanhenge happens on approximately the same two days in May and then again on two days in July<\/a> every year.<\/p>\n According to the American Museum of Natural History, the spectacle occurs when the “setting sun aligns precisely with the Manhattan street grid, creating a radiant glow of light across Manhattan’s brick and steel canyons, simultaneously illuminating both the north and south sides of every cross street of the borough’s grid.”<\/p>\n Here are the days and times you can watch Manhattanhenge in 2026:<\/p>\n Half Sun:<\/strong> Thursday, May 28 at 8:14 pm ET Full Sun:<\/strong>Saturday, July 11 at 8:20 pm ET If you want to get a shot worthy of the occasion, follow these photos tips from AccuWeather<\/a>:<\/p>\n Manhattanhenge can also be viewed at:<\/strong> ———- Copyright \u00a9 2026 WABC-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (WABC) — Twice a year, the setting sun lines up with Manhattan’s streets to provide one…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":829574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[340473,5229,338575,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,340469,340470,56253,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,340472,340471,340468],"class_list":["post-829573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-340473","tag-america","tag-manhattanhenge-2026","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-manhattanhenge","tag-nyc-sunset","tag-sunset","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-what-time-is-manhatanhenge","tag-what-time-is-sunset","tag-when-is-manhattanhenge"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116656704530773367","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Half Sun:<\/strong> Sunday, July 12 at 8:21 pm ET<\/p>\n\n
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