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Daylight in Dawson

How much daylight today, sunrise and sunset, and the huge swing from about 21 hours in June to roughly 4 in December.

How much daylight Dawson has today, when the sun rises and sets, and how the light swings across the year. Computed from Dawson's position on the globe — nothing to keep refreshed, always current.

Today

Dawson City

21 h 3 m of daylight

Sunrise: 3:48
Sunset: 0:51
Blue hour (civil twilight): —
Day length: Highest the midday sun gets: 43°

About the same daylight as yesterday

Daylight across the year

Hours of daylight on the 15th of each month.

Jan
5 h 27
Feb
8 h 39

Mar

11 h 42

Apr

15 h 04

May

18 h 22

Jun

20 h 58

Jul

19 h 41

Aug

16 h 25

Sept

13 h 04

Oct

9 h 51

Nov

6 h 33

Dec

4 h 16

Sun rises and sets

One of the biggest light swings on the platform

At 64° north, Dawson's day length swings about as hard as anywhere people live. Around the June solstice the town gets roughly 21 hours of daylight; around the December solstice it gets only about 4 hours and 20 minutes. Few towns anywhere see the light change this much across a single year.

The near-midnight sun in June

In the weeks around midsummer the sun barely dips below the horizon and the sky never truly goes dark — Dawson markets itself as the Land of the Midnight Sun. It is light enough to read outside at midnight, and the long evenings drive the town's intense May-to-September visitor season.

The long dark of December

Around the winter solstice the sun clears the horizon for only a little over four hours, rising late in the morning and setting in the early afternoon. The rest is twilight and night. Dawson keeps Yukon Standard Time year-round (UTC-7, no daylight saving), so the clock doesn't shift the way it does in much of Canada.

About these times

These are computed from the sun’s geometry — accurate to about a minute — and shown in local clock time. This is not a weather or cloud forecast: the sky can still be grey when the sun is up.

More

Dawson City sunrise & sunset times (timeanddate.com) — Day-by-day rise, set and day length for the whole year.
Land of the Midnight Sun — Dawson City — The town's own page on the long summer light.

Source: Computed from town-centre coordinates; day-length figures cross-checked against timeanddate.com, checked 18 June 2026.

Source: Computed from town-centre coordinates; day-length figures cross-checked against timeanddate.com, checked 18 June 2026.

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