7 Best Sunrise Alarm Clocks to Snag Before the Fall 2025 Time Change

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• Best Sunrise Alarm Clock

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    Courtesy of Lumie

  I emotion Lumie's sunrise alarm clocks. My erstwhile go-to was the Lumie Bodyclock Luxe 700FM ($259), but since it has constricted availability close now, the Shine is my go-to successful its place. The Bodyclock Shine 300 is simply a small smaller than the Luxe, but it inactive gets plentifulness agleam and has each the features I similar from the Luxe. You'll get customizable sunrise and sunset routines, and person 15 sounds (less than the Luxe, but inactive a coagulated amount) to take from, positive a built-in FM radio. It has a cloth basal and sleek buttons, and a small integer surface that unluckily tin lone amusement a 24-hour clock.

  You tin acceptable up some sunrise and sunset routines, but you'll request the included manual to fig it out. The manual is plentifulness casual to follow, and the steps aren't complicated, but the instrumentality itself and its buttons aren't ace intuitive without it. It’s casual and enjoyable to usage arsenic a bedside lamp and an wale-up light, and I besides enjoyed the sunset regular to assistance maine upwind down arsenic I work my Kindle.

  While I similar the Luxe, the Shine is simply a large enactment that's well-priced and inactive delivers amended wake-ups than different sunrise clocks successful this guide. The lone downsides betwixt the Shine and the Luxe are that there's little sounds, and that the bedside lamp controls aren't arsenic casual since it doesn't person the dial. The Luxe should beryllium backmost successful banal adjacent month, but if you privation thing sooner (or thing cheaper!) the Shine is simply a large choice.

  Routine options	Sunrise and sunset settings
  Sound options	15 sounds, positive radio
  Bedside lamp capability?	Yes, requires immoderate fastener clicking to activate
  App control?	No
  Subscription tiers?	No

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  • Sunrise and sunset options
  • 15 sounds, positive FM radio
  • Gets bully and bright, and has a bully cloth finish

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  • Activating the bedside lamp takes a fewer clicks

• Most Futuristic Sunrise Alarm Clock

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    Courtesy of Philips

  Philips

  SmartSleep Sleep and Wake-Up Light (HF3650/60)

  This futuristic-looking, circular sunrise alarm timepiece from Philips looks consecutive from a sci-fi movie, but packs each the features you'll privation successful a modern wake-up light. It has some sunrise and sunset routines, 9 relaxing sounds to usage for either bedtime oregon the morning, an casual setup that you won't request a manual for, a built-in FM vigor (though it's champion for selecting a azygous presumption to aftermath up to alternatively than surfing the channels), and a brushed night-light you tin easy pat connected and disconnected for a speedy dash to the bathroom.

  Everything connected the Philips SmartSleep Sleep and Wake-Up Light is done connected the touchscreen, which has deep-yellow lettering that navigates you done mounting up the clip and your sunrise of choice. My lone ailment astir this touchscreen sheet is that the lettering is simply a small hard to work erstwhile the airy is astatine its afloat brightness. But that mightiness beryllium the point, since you tin lone crook disconnected the sunrise by touching the alarm fastener connected the screen, requiring you to look the sunlight successful bid to effort and halt it. You tin pat the apical of the instrumentality to crook disconnected immoderate euphony you've chosen, but the airy itself volition enactment on—perfect for really staying awake. Sadly, there's lone 10 alarm sounds total, which is simply a bummer for the price.

  Routine options	Sunrise and sunset settings
  Sound options	10 sounds, positive radio
  Bedside lamp capability?	Yes, but not arsenic casual to power arsenic I'd like
  App control?	No
  Subscription tiers?	No

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  • Has some sunrise and sunset modes
  • Gets bully and bright, and tin treble arsenic a lamp
  • Has a touchscreen paper that's casual to navigate

  TIRED

  • Has lone 10 sounds
  • Touchscreen sheet lettering is simply a small hard to work erstwhile the airy is astatine its afloat brightness

• The Sunrise Alarm for Super Intuitive Control

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    Courtesy of Casper

  The Casper Glow Light is 1 of the smallest lights I've tested, but it managed to beryllium plentifulness agleam to aftermath maine up successful the morning. Not lone is this small airy incredibly bright, it's besides ace elemental to usage with some carnal controls and app setup. Within the Casper Glow app—which is unluckily iOS only—you acceptable up your wake-up time, and the Glow Light volition commencement to brighten 30 minutes earlier that acceptable time. You tin besides acceptable however agelong you privation your Glow Light to dim for, which it volition usage some successful the evenings and aft it finishes waking you up.

  But the existent amusive comes from the carnal controls and flexibility. The Glow Light is simply a battery-operated stand-alone lamp that you tin prime up and determination astir to use, and you crook it connected and disconnected by flipping it upside down onto the different side. When you crook it on, it volition instantly activate its highest brightness and volition dim for the magnitude of clip acceptable successful the app (default is 45 minutes). You tin besides property the fastener connected apical of the Glow Light to intermission the dimming, and twist the airy to either the near oregon close to marque it brighter oregon dimmer. It's truthful casual that my two-year-old thought this happening was a airy artifact alternatively than my idiosyncratic alarm clock. The contiguous wind-down airy is plentifulness of clip for maine to laic successful furniture and read, but I emotion rotating the airy to get my cleanable level of brightness arsenic I unbend successful bed.

  It has a small charging basal it tin beryllium connected and is expected to past astir 7 hours of brightness connected a charge. That should beryllium astir 3 days of usage if you person it agleam for astir an hr earlier furniture and successful the morning. Some nights I support it connected the charging pad, portion others I conscionable permission it connected my bedside table. It's a truly useful small light, and 1 I program to question with since it's truthful compact. The lone downside of this adorable lamp is that there's nary dependable options.

  Routine options	Sunrise and sunset settings
  Sound options	None
  Bedside lamp capability?	Yes, tiny but agleam and casual to adjust
  App control?	Yes, but iOS only
  Subscription tiers?	No

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  • Has sunrise and sunset settings
  • Cool carnal controls that are intuitive: flip to crook connected and off, rotate to set brightness
  • Battery powered with a small charging disc

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  • No audio options
  • App controlled, and said app is iOS only

• Best Sunrise Alarm Clock for Sound + App Controls

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    Courtesy of Hatch

  The Hatch Restore 3 arrived astatine the commencement of 2025, replacing the fashionable Hatch Restore 2. The Restore 3 has everything the erstwhile exemplary had, but with overmuch amended carnal controls. Instead of conscionable 2 buttons similar the 2, the Restore 3 has 4 buttons (one of which doubles arsenic a dial to set volume) and an alarm toggle, allowing you to amended interact with the routines you make successful the Hatch app without needing to interaction your phone.

  I truly emotion this device, particularly since you tin make bedtime routines with aggregate layers—mine starts with a moody reddish airy and immoderate folky euphony for 10 minutes earlier switching the airy disconnected and switching to water sounds. The caller buttons are besides a crippled changer, making it casual to set the volume, power betwixt steps successful your routine, crook connected the Hatch's bedside airy mode, and adjacent power disconnected your aftermath up clip for the adjacent greeting without needing to alteration your settings successful the app. It makes the app little indispensable erstwhile you've acceptable up your routines, which is simply a immense relief.

  The lone bummer is that this airy doesn't get arsenic agleam arsenic others. The bedside lamp mode is much of a speechmaking lamp, and I find it excessively casual to spell backmost to sleep; the Philips and Lumie are much effectual astatine really getting maine up. Make definite you take bully sounds to unit you to aftermath up if you're the benignant to rotation backmost implicit and effort to slumber a small longer. You'll besides request a Hatch+ rank ($3 a month) to get entree to each of the dependable contented Hatch has to connection and much regular options.

  Routine options	Sunrise and sunset settings
  Sound options	58 sounds, positive further slumber content
  Bedside lamp capability?	Yes, but excessively dim to beryllium useful
  App control?	Yes, some iOS and Android
  Subscription tiers?	Yes, Hatch+ rank ($3 a month) gets you much contented and options

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  • Has sunrise and sunset options
  • Has 58 sounds (!!) and further slumber content
  • Can physique multi-step slumber routines

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  • Light isn't arsenic agleam arsenic I'd similar arsenic a dense sleeper
  • Has a subscription level ($3 a month) to entree each contented and options

• A Glamorous Lamp

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    Courtesy of Loftie

  The Loftie Lamp is simply a beauteous lamp to person connected your nightstand. The full assemblage of the lamp is the airy itself, and there's a mesh metallic lampshade that's mostly determination for decoration portion the remainder of the lamp does the existent work. Using the Loftie app, you tin acceptable an alarm that volition awesome this sunrise lamp to airy up, and what the app calls a “wind-down” to awesome the lamp to dim.

  Both of these enactment good enough, but if you privation an existent audio code to spell off, you request to brace the lamp with the Loftie Clock. The clip for some the sunrise and sunset is lone astir 9 minutes, which is simply a truly abbreviated model compared to different options, and you can't customize it to instrumentality longer similar you tin with our different picks. Having the timepiece and lamp spell disconnected astatine the aforesaid clip didn't marque maine consciousness arsenic mildly roused arsenic different sunrise lamps due to the fact that of the abbreviated clip window, but I recovered that I had a akin acquisition if I acceptable the Loftie to airy up 15 minutes earlier my alarm went off. It's besides a bully enactment if you don't privation audio cues but conscionable privation your country to brighten, and it does marque for a fantastic bedside lamp. It tends to ever enactment connected my bedside, adjacent if I'm investigating different sunrise lamp.

  The terms connected this lamp initially went up importantly due to tariffs, raising from $275 to $450, but present seems to consistently outgo $300. We'll support an oculus retired to spot if the terms changes immoderate further.

  Routine options	Sunrise and sunset settings, but some are lone 9 minutes
  Sound options	None, unless you acquisition the Loftie Clock
  Bedside lamp capability?	Yes, 3 colors each with dimming levels
  App control?	Yes, some iOS and Android
  Subscription tiers?	Yes, Loftie Rest ($6 a month) but it's designed for the Loftie Clock much than the Lamp

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  • Gorgeous bedside lamp that tin brighten a full room.
  • Has 3 colors and 3 brightness levels for each color.
  • Can acceptable up a sunrise and sunset clip successful the app.

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  • Can lone brighten oregon dim implicit the people of 9 minutes. No accommodation options.
  • No dependable option; needs to beryllium paired with the Loftie Alarm for sound.

• Best Budget Sunrise Alarm Clock

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    Courtesy of Dreamegg

  This petite sunrise lamp is smaller than the Hatch and a akin size to the WiiM below, but the Dreamegg Sunrise 1 is cheaper (often for adjacent to fractional the terms of the Hatch), inactive gets amazingly bright, and has a scope of colors. It's usually connected sale, too. It has each the basal features you could want: elemental sunrise programming, six dependable and 9 colour options, and casual entree to activate those colors arsenic a tiny bedside nightlight. There's nary sunset option, but for this terms you're inactive getting a bully scope of features.

  There are respective buttons connected the apical to power the clock, alarm, and airy features. I besides truly similar the 2 dials connected the side: One controls the brightness of the timepiece face, truthful you tin brighten it to spot the clip and easy dim it truthful it doesn't fuss you portion you slumber (a diagnostic of astir integer clocks that I hate!) and different dial connected the different broadside to rapidly brighten oregon dim the airy itself. It's truly casual to control, and the tiny but almighty airy truly has helped maine aftermath up successful the mornings.

  I similar it without sounds, though, akin to however I usage the Loftie Lamp, but particularly since snoozing the Dreamegg volition crook some dependable and airy off. Most others lone crook the dependable disconnected and permission the airy connected truthful you tin support rousing. I besides recovered the sounds a small excessively relaxing, truthful conscionable having the airy blast my look until I got retired of furniture was the champion method with this sunrise lamp.

  Routine options	Sunrise only
  Sound options	Six wake-up sounds
  Bedside lamp capability?	Yes, casual to power but much nightlight capacity
  App control?	No
  Subscription tiers?	No

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  • Small, but inactive gets precise bright
  • Six sounds and 9 colour options

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  • No sunset option
  • Snoozing the Dreamegg turns the airy and dependable off

• More Affordable App Control

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    Courtesy of WiiM

  The WiiM Wake-Up Light is simply a tiny device, but it turns retired to beryllium amazingly powerful. It has a companion app wherever you acceptable up the sunrise and bedtime routines and tin entree a immense scope of sounds—from the classics similar achromatic noise, thunderstorms, oregon a wood watercourse to much circumstantial options similar Healing Music for Insomnia (a gentle soft piece) oregon Santa Giulia Beach, which I tin lone presume was recorded connected the French enactment it's named after. There's besides a large scope of colors the WiiM tin show, and it reminds maine of a astute airy bulb since it has colour combinations and airy shows to take from. Even with the clock's tiny size, I recovered the speechmaking airy mode is simply a bully brightness to work a publication by, though it didn't capable the country similar the Lumie above. It besides has 1 of the bigger dependable libraries, with conscionable implicit 100 dependable and vigor presumption options you tin take successful the app to aftermath up oregon autumn dormant to.

  I truly liked the app controls for the WiiM, which made it casual to acceptable up my routines and adjacent crook connected relaxing sounds connected a timer to bask earlier bed. The WiiM requires an progressive Wi-Fi transportation to work, though, truthful if your Wi-Fi isn't stable, you could miss your alarm. It besides offers Alexa integration and has a built-in microphone truthful that it tin treble arsenic a astute location adjunct (which, again, needs that unchangeable Wi-Fi). I besides don't emotion that erstwhile I spell to quiescent the alarm, some the dependable and the airy crook off. You tin easy deed the airy fastener to power it backmost on, which I bash to enactment awake, but if you're a chronic snoozer you mightiness privation to acceptable up backup alarms.

  Routine options	Sunrise and sunset settings
  Sound options	102 sounds and stations
  Bedside lamp capability?	Yes, casual to power but much nightlight capacity
  App control?	Yes, iOS and Android
  Subscription tiers?	No

  WIRED

  • Sunrise and sunset settings
  • 102 (!!) dependable options and stations
  • Has a clump of colour options similar a astute bulb

  TIRED

  • Is a overmuch smaller airy and can't treble arsenic a existent bedside lamp
  • Snoozing the alarm turns disconnected some the audio alarm and the light