France is always one hour ahead of the United Kingdom, and changes it's clocks at the same time. This means that the sun rises later and sets later than in the UK, which is shown in the table below:
| Sunrise | Sunset | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Poitiers | London | Manchester | Poitiers | London | Manchester |
| January 1st | 08:43 | 08:06 | 08:25 | 17:21 | 16:02 | 16:00 |
| February 1st | 08:23 | 07:39 | 07:55 | 18:02 | 16:49 | 16:51 |
| March 1st | 07:40 | 06:47 | 06:58 | 18:44 | 17:40 | 17:46 |
| April 1st | 07:40 | 06:37 | 06:44 | 20:28 | 19:33 | 19:43 |
| May 1st | 06:45 | 05:33 | 05:35 | 21:08 | 20:23 | 20:38 |
| June 1st | 06:09 | 04:50 | 04:47 | 21:43 | 21:08 | 21:27 |
| July 1st | 06:09 | 04:47 | 04:44 | 21:55 | 21:21 | 21:41 |
| August 1st | 06:39 | 05:23 | 05:24 | 21:31 | 20:49 | 21:06 |
| September 1st | 07:18 | 06:12 | 06:17 | 20:39 | 19:48 | 20:00 |
| October 1st | 07:56 | 07:00 | 07:10 | 19:39 | 18:39 | 18:47 |
| November 1st | 07:40 | 06:53 | 07:07 | 17:44 | 16:34 | 16:37 |
| December 1st | 08:22 | 07:43 | 08:01 | 17:13 | 15:55 | 15:54 |
The times above are the local times, and are based on the data available for 2003.