Daylight in Dawson
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How much daylight today, sunrise and sunset, and the huge swing from about 21 hours in June to roughly 4 in December.
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How much daylight today, sunrise and sunset, and the huge swing from about 21 hours in June to roughly 4 in December.
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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
15 h 32 m of daylight
About 7 minutes less daylight than yesterday
Hours of daylight on the 15th of each month.
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.
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.
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
Source: Computed from town-centre coordinates; day-length figures cross-checked against timeanddate.com, checked June 18, 2026 (2 months ago).
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15 h 32 m of daylight
Sunset 10:08 p.m.