$ man sunrise-sunset
/sunrise-sunset(1)
PRICE / CALL
$0.002
USDC · base mainnet · scheme: exact
METHOD
POST
CLUSTER
localeCATEGORY
uncategorized
STATUS
● live
NAME
sunrise-sunset — sunrise sunset times
SYNOPSIS
POST https://x402.org/v1/sunrise-sunset
Content-Type: application/json
X-PAYMENT: <signed-transferWithAuthorization>
{ ... }↳ first call →
402 Payment Required. Sign USDCtransferWithAuthorization, retry with theX-PAYMENT header.DESCRIPTION
Sunrise sunset times. Returns sunrise, sunset, solar noon, day length, and civil / nautical / astronomical twilight begin and end for any latitude/longitude on any date. Also covers golden-hour and dawn / dusk. Same backend as astro-times under a more search-friendly slug. UTC ISO8601 strings.
INPUT — request schema
| property | type | description | req? |
|---|---|---|---|
| latitude | number | Latitude in decimal degrees (-90 to 90, positive north) for the location to compute sun times. | required |
| longitude | number | Longitude in decimal degrees (-180 to 180, positive east) for the location to compute sun times. | required |
| date | string | Calendar date as YYYY-MM-DD for which to compute sunrise, sunset, twilight, and golden-hour times. | optional |
OUTPUT — response shape
| field | type | description |
|---|---|---|
| date | string | Echo of the requested YYYY-MM-DD date the returned solar times apply to. |
| times | string | Object of UTC ISO8601 timestamps: sunrise, sunset, solar noon, day length, twilight phases, golden hour, dawn, dusk. |
| source | string | Identifier of the solar algorithm or library used to compute the returned times. |
EXAMPLES — two ways to call
EXAMPLE 1 · curl
curl -X POST https://x402.org/v1/sunrise-sunset \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{ }'first response =
402 Payment Required with payment requirements; sign + retry with X-PAYMENT.EXAMPLE 2 · mcp
# install once claude mcp add x402 --command "npx x402-deployer-mcp" # then ask Claude Code: # "use the sunrise-sunset tool to ..."
MCP server handles payment automatically — your coding agent just calls the tool by name.
METADATA
- tags
- localesunrise-sunsetsolar-timestwilightgolden-hourday-lengthastronomygeolocation
- methods
- POST
- cluster
- locale
- price
- $0.002 USDC per call
ADJACENT — other endpoints in locale
| endpoint | description | price |
|---|---|---|
| astro-times | sunrise-sunset / golden-hour / civil twilight / nautical dusk / day-length / solar-noon / dawn-dusk / astronomy times. | $0.002 |
| country-info | Country info / ISO 3166 / country code lookup / capital city lookup / currencies by country / population / region resolver. | $0.002 |
| earthquakes-recent | Earthquake feed / seismic activity / USGS / recent quakes / quake monitor / tremor data / fault line activity / tsunami alerts. | $0.002 |
| holiday-lookup | Public holidays / bank holidays / national holidays / federal holidays / holiday calendar / per-country dates. | $0.002 |
| timezone-convert | Timezone convert / IANA tz conversion / DST-aware time arithmetic / wall-clock to UTC / convert across cities. | $0.001 |
| timezone-lookup | Timezone lookup / IANA tz / UTC offset / DST status / local time at lat-lng / which timezone. | $0.001 |
| iata-airport-info | IATA / ICAO airport code lookup. | $0.005 |
| satellite-tile | Satellite imagery tile / lat-lon to satellite PNG / Sentinel-2 tile API / cloud-free satellite snapshot / agent-callable satellite imagery. | $0.005 |
SEE ALSO