Sunrise-Sunset API returning unexpected responses

September 26, 2023

I am trying to send API calls to https://api.sunrise-sunset.org/json to get the sunset/sunrise time. This works fine however the problem is whenever I send an API call with lat and lng parameters it returns an unexpected response.

For example.

The below code returns a correct value of sunrise and sunset(Without lat/lng parameters)

import requests

response = requests.get(url = "https://api.sunrise-sunset.org/json")
data = response.json()
print(data)

API Response:

{'results': {'sunrise': '5:47:00 AM', 'sunset': '5:55:48 PM', 'solar_noon': '11:51:24 AM', 'day_length': '12:08:48', 'civil_twilight_begin': '5:27:24 AM', 'civil_twilight_end': '6:15:24 PM', 'nautical_twilight_begin': '5:03:23 AM', 'nautical_twilight_end': '6:39:25 PM', 'astronomical_twilight_begin': '4:39:23 AM', 'astronomical_twilight_end': '7:03:25 PM'}, 'status': 'OK'}

However, when I try to send the API call with the lat and lng parameters it returns a very weird response. My location is Pakistan.

For example, the below code returns 12:56:37 AM as a sunrise time which is really weird to me.

import requests
LAT = 33.648953
LNG = 73.177007

parameters = {
    "lat":LAT,
    "lng":LNG

}

response = requests.get(url = "https://api.sunrise-sunset.org/json", params=parameters)
response.raise_for_status()
data = response.json()
print(data)

API Response:

{'results': {'sunrise': '12:56:37 AM', 'sunset': '1:00:55 PM', 'solar_noon': '6:58:46 AM', 'day_length': '12:04:18', 'civil_twilight_begin': '12:33:03 AM', 'civil_twilight_end': '1:24:28 PM', 'nautical_twilight_begin': '12:04:07 AM', 'nautical_twilight_end': '1:53:24 PM', 'astronomical_twilight_begin': '11:34:57 PM', 'astronomical_twilight_end': '2:22:35 PM'}, 'status': 'OK'}

What could go wrong?

I tried:

1- Cross-checking the longitude and latitude values from https://www.latlong.net/and they are perfectly valid.

2- I tried getting a response from the browser directly and it also shows a weird sunset/sunrise time.

3-Changing the values of LAT/LNG but still the same issue.

https://api.sunrise-sunset.org/json?lat=33.6938118&lng=73.0651511