Daylight in Iqaluit
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How much daylight today, when the sun rises and sets, and how the light swings across the year.
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How much daylight today, when the sun rises and sets, and how the light swings across the year.
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At 63.75°N the day barely ends in June and barely begins in December. This works out how much daylight Iqaluit gets today, when the sun rises and sets, and how the light swings across the whole year — useful when you're planning to be out on the land.
Today
Iqaluit
15 h 31 m of daylight
About 6 minutes less daylight than yesterday
Hours of daylight on the 15th of each month.
Iqaluit sits just south of the Arctic Circle, so the sun does rise and set every day of the year — there is no true midnight sun and no true polar night here. But the swing is huge. Around the June solstice the sun is up for roughly twenty hours and the few hours it is down stay bright with twilight, so it never gets properly dark. Around the December solstice the sun is up for only about four hours and sits very low, so even midday feels like dusk.
The figures above are worked out for today from Iqaluit's location, so they are always current. Use them to plan time on the land — when you'll have light to travel, hunt or fish, and when the dark will close in.
Because the sun stays low for much of the year, the long twilight before sunrise and after sunset is a real part of the usable day. The 'first and last light' times above (civil twilight) are often more useful than the exact sunrise and sunset for knowing when you can still see to move around.
About these times
Source: Computed from Iqaluit's coordinates using standard solar astronomy, checked June 18, 2026 (2 months ago).
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15 h 31 m of daylight
Sunset 8:23 p.m.