Daylight in Yellowknife
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How much daylight today, sunrise and sunset, and how the light swings from about 5 to nearly 20 hours across the year.
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How much daylight today, sunrise and sunset, and how the light swings from about 5 to nearly 20 hours across the year.
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How much daylight Yellowknife has today, when the sun rises and sets, and how dramatically the light swings across the year.
Today
Yellowknife
15 h 18 m of daylight
About 6 minutes less daylight than yesterday
Hours of daylight on the 15th of each month.
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.
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.
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
Source: Sun times computed from town coordinates; cross-checked against timeanddate.com, checked June 18, 2026 (2 months ago).
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15 h 18 m of daylight
Sunset 9:20 p.m.