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Daylight in Yellowknife

How much daylight today, sunrise and sunset, and how the light swings from about 5 to nearly 20 hours across the year.

How much daylight Yellowknife has today, when the sun rises and sets, and how dramatically the light swings across the year.

Today

Yellowknife

19 h 58 m of daylight

Sunrise: 3:40
Sunset: 23:39
Blue hour (civil twilight): —
Day length: Highest the midday sun gets: 48°

About the same daylight as yesterday

Daylight across the year

Hours of daylight on the 15th of each month.

Jan
6 h 01
Feb
8 h 53
Mar

11 h 43

Apr

14 h 51

May

17 h 49

Jun

19 h 55

Jul

18 h 57

Aug

16 h 06

Sept

13 h 00

Oct

10 h 01

Nov

7 h 00

Dec

5 h 02

Sun rises and sets

From about 5 hours to nearly 20

Yellowknife's daylight swings further than almost anywhere most people live. Around the December solstice the sun is up for only about 5 hours; around the June solstice it's up for close to 20. In 2026 the shortest day is about 4 hours 57 minutes (December 21) and the longest about 19 hours 59 minutes (June 21) — roughly a fifteen-hour difference between the two ends of the year.

What deep-winter daylight is actually like

Even at midwinter the sun does rise — Yellowknife is south of the Arctic Circle, so there's no true polar night. But it stays low, the light is long and slanting, and a clear winter day has hours of soft gold around a brief noon. The flip side comes in June, when the sky barely darkens at all and a long blue twilight runs through the small hours.

Why the long summer days matter

Those long, bright summers are part of life here — late-evening light for being outdoors on the lake and trails, and some of the sunniest summer months in the country. The trade-off is the dark season, which is also what makes Yellowknife such a good place to see the northern lights.

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

Sunrise and sunset times — Yellowknife (timeanddate.com) — Day-by-day rise/set times and daylight length for any date.

Source: Sun times computed from town coordinates; cross-checked against timeanddate.com, checked 18 June 2026.

Source: Sun times computed from town coordinates; cross-checked against timeanddate.com, checked 18 June 2026.

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