how Portland has a sunrise earlier than Los Angeles if Portland is further north west and sun rises from the east.

Question

For example, Los Angeles sunrise is 6:01AM and sunset at 7:57PM. But Portland who is further northwest, has a sunrise at 5:50AM and sunset at 8:44PM.

Why is this???

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Answer 1

Because like you said, it’s further north. The farther you go from the equator, the bigger the difference between the lengths of the day and night – in summer the days in Portland are longer than in LA and in winter they are shorter.

Being farther west just means that both sunset and sunrise times are slightly later.