Svalbard · Svalbard and Jan Mayen · 78.22° N · 15.65° E
Solar position in Longyearbyen
Sun position, daylight and the best solar panel angle for Longyearbyen — computed for 78.22° N, 15.65° E, 1 m above sea level.
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Sun in Longyearbyen today
Saturday, 24 October 2026 · local time UTC+2
| Event | Time | Direction / height |
|---|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 04:27 | sun 18° below horizon |
| Nautical dawn | 06:31 | 12° below |
| Civil dawn | 08:35 | 6° below |
| Sunrise | 11:15 | 159° SSE |
| Golden hour ends | — | sun 6° up |
| Solar noon | 12:40 | 0.4° high |
| Golden hour starts | — | sun 6° up |
| Sunset | 14:05 | 200° SSW |
| Civil dusk | 16:45 | 6° below |
| Nautical dusk | 18:48 | 12° below |
| Astronomical dusk | 20:50 | 18° below |
| Day length | 2 h 49 min | |
Sun path diagram for Longyearbyen
Where the sun stands in the sky: the centre is straight overhead, the outer ring is the horizon. Numbers mark local clock hours.
- June solstice
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- December solstice
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On the June solstice the sun reaches 35.2° at solar noon in Longyearbyen; on the December solstice only -11.7°.
Sunrise, sunset and sun height by month
Values for the 21st of each month, local clock time including daylight saving time.
| Month | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Day length | Noon elevation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | — | 12:09 | — | 0 h | -8.1° |
| February | 09:50 | 12:12 | 14:34 | 4 h 44 min | 1.6° |
| March | 05:43 | 12:05 | 18:29 | 12 h 45 min | 12.2° |
| April | — | 12:57 | — | 24 h | 23.8° |
| May | — | 12:54 | — | 24 h | 32.0° |
| June | — | 12:59 | — | 24 h | 35.2° |
| July | — | 13:03 | — | 24 h | 32.2° |
| August | — | 12:59 | — | 24 h | 23.8° |
| September | 06:20 | 12:49 | 19:16 | 12 h 56 min | 12.5° |
| October | 10:29 | 12:40 | 14:51 | 4 h 22 min | 1.4° |
| November | — | 11:42 | — | 0 h | -8.2° |
| December | — | 11:55 | — | 0 h | -11.7° |
A year of daylight in Longyearbyen
Each column is one day of 2026. Bright: sun above the horizon; soft: civil twilight; line: solar noon. Steps are daylight saving time changes.
Solar panel angle
Monthly climate data is not available this far north or south, so yield figures are not shown. The sun path and daylight above are exact.
Solar forecast for Longyearbyen, next 48 hours
Expected output of 1 kWp at 70°, computed from the ICON-EU weather model of the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), Europe.
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Sun positions: NREL Solar Position Algorithm. Climate: NASA POWER monthly climatology (NASA Langley Research Center). Forecast: Deutscher Wetterdienst, ICON-EU (CC BY 4.0), processed. Places: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Time zones: IANA. Sources and licences.