Ireland: What time does it get dark?
 

Hello all,
I'll be doing the whirlwind driving tour (Dublin to Shannon in 48 hours) March 29-30, and I want to know how many hours of daylight I'll have.
Anybody have a clue what time it gets dark in SW Ireland about then? Also, what time does the sun come up?
I heard daylight saving starts over Easter, the day before. So, I'll need to figure that in.
Thanks Everybody,
Leslie

March 30

Rise 7:05
Set 19:52

Someone, somewhere on this site once posted this website:

www.sunrisesunset.com

It's not all that specific, but it might help.

sunrisesunset.com will print a calendar for a month's solar days at a time. With lunar phases if you wish.

(That was the 29th I posted above. The 30th is 7:03 - 19:53.)

Easter Sunday (27 Mar) the EU goes on daylight saving time (summer time). So sunrise will be a little later and evenings will be a little longer.

Ireland is pretty far north (54 deg N) so summer days are long. Figure on about 20:00 (8:00 PM) for sunset the 1st of April. Don't start your drive too early: you might encounter frost and that could be slick - as if you didn't have enough to worry about.

Oddly, it also gets dark there from about 4pm to 530 pm every afternoon. Not sure why.

Actually, the sun will rise on the 26th at 6:12, and on the 27th at 7:10. From this, it can be inferred that DST is already figured into the times I originally gave:

Mar 29 7:05 - 19:52
Mar 30 7:03 - 19:53

So you'll have 13 hours of daylight - but don't push it, okay?