Daylight & polar night
How much daylight there is today at 69°N, when the sun rises and sets, and the polar-night and midnight-sun spans — worked out from the sun's own geometry.
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How much daylight there is today at 69°N, when the sun rises and sets, and the polar-night and midnight-sun spans — worked out from the sun's own geometry.
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Teriberka sits at 69°N, above the Arctic Circle, so the light does something most places never see: for weeks in winter the sun never clears the horizon, and for weeks in summer it never sets. This works it out from the sun's geometry for today — no forecast, nothing to keep updated.
Today
Teriberka (69.2°N)
21 h 2 m of daylight
About 15 minutes less daylight than yesterday
Polar night begins in 124 days, on Tuesday 1 December
Hours of daylight on the 15th of each month.
For roughly 43 days the sun stays below the horizon and never truly rises. It doesn't go pitch black at midday, though — there's a long blue-grey twilight for a few hours around noon, and it is the darkest, best stretch of the year for the northern lights.
In high summer the sun never sets: it circles low across the sky through the night. It's the season for hiking, camping and the Barents Sea beach — but there is no darkness, so it is the wrong time to come for the aurora.
Northern lights: September to April, best November to March, when the sky is dark and clear.
Whales: mainly mid-spring into early summer (roughly May–July), with the odd winter sighting in the bay.
Camping and the tundra on foot: July–August.
Bear in mind that the deep-winter months that are best for the aurora are also when storms close the one road in — check the road before you travel.
About these times
Source: Computed from the town's coordinates (standard solar astronomy), checked 12 July 2026 (2 weeks ago).
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