Daybreak most commonly refers to:

  • Dawn, the beginning of the twilight before sunrise
  • Sunrise, when the upper edge of the Sun appears over the horizon

Daybreak may also refer to:

Books

  • Al-Falaq (Dawn, Daybreak), the 113th Sura of the Qur'an
  • Daybreak, comic book by Brian Ralph
  • Daybreak, adventure book by Ally Kennen
  • Daybreak (Nietzsche book), an 1881 book of aphorisms by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Daybreak, a 1968 autobiographical memoir by folk singer Joan Baez

Films

  • Daybreak (1918 film), a silent film
  • Daybreak (1931 film), an MGM film with Ramon Novarro
  • Daybreak (1933 film), a Chinese film directed by Sun Yu
  • Le Jour Se Lève, a 1939 French film by Marcel Carnè also known as Daybreak
  • Daybreak (1948 film), a British film starring Ann Todd
  • Daybreak (1954 film), a West German film directed by Viktor Tourjansky
  • Daybreak (1993 film), an HBO film starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., Moira Kelly, Martha Plimpton, and Omar Epps
  • Day Break (2005 film), an Iranian film directed by Hamid Rahmanian
  • Daybreak (2008 film), a Filipino film
  • Amanecer, a 2009 Colombian-Australian film also known as Daybreak
  • Daybreak (2017 film), an Albanian film

Music

  • Daybreak (band), a South Korean band

Albums

  • Daybreak (Béla Fleck album) or the title song, 1987
  • Daybreak (Chet Baker album) or the title track, 1980
  • Daybreak (Dave Burrell and David Murray album) or the title track, 1989
  • Daybreak (Saves the Day album) or the title song, 2011
  • Daybreak, by Leanne & Naara, 2020
  • Daybreak, by Mezzoforte, 1993
  • Daybreak, by Michael Haggins, or the title song (used in several episodes of Community), 2004
  • Daybreak, by Paul Field, 1983
  • Daybreak (Woe, Is Me album), 2025

Songs

  • "Daybreak" (Ayumi Hamasaki song), 2002
  • "Daybreak" (Barry Manilow song), 1977
  • "Daybreak", by Harold Adamson, adapted from Ferde Grofé's 1926 Mississippi Suite, 1942; recorded by several performers
  • "Daybreak", by Harry Nilsson from the film Son of Dracula, 1974
  • "Daybreak", by Janet Jackson from 20 Y.O., 2006
  • "Daybreak", by Linda Perhacs from The Soul of All Natural Things, 2014
  • "Daybreak", by Minhyun and JR of NU'EST from Canvas, 2016
  • "Daybreak", by Robin Carolan from the Nosferatu film soundtrack, 2024
  • "Daybreak", by the Stone Roses from Second Coming, 1994
  • "You're the One for Me" / "Daybreak" / "A.M.", by Paul Hardcastle, 1984

Radio

  • Daybreak, the local morning program of CBC Radio One station CBME-FM
  • Daybreak USA, an American syndicated talk radio show

Television

  • Day Break, a 2006 ABC television series
  • CNN Daybreak, a former CNN early day show
  • Daybreak (1983 TV series), a defunct British morning television programme that ran from 1983 to 1984
  • Daybreak (2010 TV programme), a defunct British morning television programme on ITV that ran from September 2010 until April 2014
  • Daybreak (1993 film), a TV movie produced in 1993, starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Moira Kelly
  • "Daybreak" (Battlestar Galactica), the final two-part episode of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica television series
  • Daybreak, a local morning news show on KATV in Little Rock, Arkansas
  • Daybreak (Philippine TV program), a Philippine English-language morning hard-news newscast of 9TV
  • Daybreak Scotland, a former regional news broadcaster for the two ITV regions in northern and central Scotland (2007–2010)
  • Daybreak (2019 TV series), a Netflix television series

Other

  • Daybreak (board game), board game about climate change
  • Daybreak (painting), 1922 painting by Maxfield Parrish
  • Daybreak Game Company, video game developer and publisher (formerly Sony Online Entertainment)
  • Daybreak (community), a planned development in South Jordan, Utah, US

See also

  • Daybreaker (disambiguation)