The sunrise before the time change in the fall is the latest sunrise of the entire year for most cities in the U.S. except some locations in Alaska.For Louisville, the sunrise this morning was at 8:13 AM. This is later than many cities since we are on the western edge of the Eastern Time Zone.Bowling Green in the Central Time Zone had their latest sunrise of the year.... 7:13 AM.During the middle of winter, the latest sunrise in Louisville is at 8:00.Two things determine the time of the sunrise. The city's location in the time going by east-west and also it's overall north-south location.The further north, the later the sunrise will be.In the time zone, the further west, the later the sunrise will be. The time zone location has a little more say on the lateness of the sunrise than the northern location.So city's in the eastern time zone that are further north and west of Louisville had a later sunrise. A few locations in Indiana to the east of Louisville also had a later sunrise this morning.Here were some times for sunrise this morningLouisville 8:13Indianapolis 8:17South Bend, IN 8:21Grand Rapids, MI 8:20Marquette, MI 8:37Green Bay, WI 7:34 ..... A lot further north, but on the wast side of the Central Time Zone.The latest sunrise in the Central Time Zone is 8:45 at Williston, ND.The latest sunrise today in Alaska was 11:35 AM at Barrow. The sun will set in Barrow on November 18 and won't rise again until January 22.The map below shows that Louisville's sunrise was later than more than 90% of the country if you do not include Alaska.