Sunrise and Sunset Times in Alaska
Find today's sunrise, sunset, golden hour, and twilight times for cities in Alaska. Select a city below or use the search to find your location.
All Cities
Longest and shortest day are the June and December solstice day lengths at each city's own coordinates. Sun vs. clock is how far mean solar noon falls from 12:00 standard time — negative means the Sun peaks before the clock says noon.
| City | Longest day | Shortest day | Swing | Sun vs. clock | Urban pop. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anchorage Anchorage area | 19h 21m | 5h 29m | 13h 52m | +56 min | 288,976 |
| Fairbanks Fairbanks North Star area | 21h 50m | 3h 42m | 18h 8m | +51 min | 68,976 |
| Juneau Juneau area | 18h 20m | 6h 20m | 12h 0m | −3 min | 31,794 |
Sunrise and Sunset in Alaska
The 3 Alaska cities listed here span 6.4° of latitude, from Juneau in the south (58.5°N) to Fairbanks in the north (64.8°N). On the June solstice that puts about 21h 50m of daylight over Fairbanks against 18h 20m over Juneau — a 3h 30m difference inside one state. In December the gap reverses, and the southern cities are the ones holding more light.
The median Alaska city swings 13h 52m between the solstices against a national median of 5h 16m, so seasons here move the clock 8h 36m more than they do in a typical American city.
Seasons bite hardest in Fairbanks, where daylight swings 18h 8m between the solstices, and least in Juneau at 12h 0m. The table above lists both figures for every city, so you can see where any town falls between those two extremes.
Alaska sits entirely in Alaska Time. Longitude decides how a city's clock lines up with its Sun: Anchorage sits furthest west inside its zone, which puts mean solar noon about 56 minutes after clock noon and gives it the state's latest-running evenings for its longitude.
Each city page carries that city's full profile: today's sunrise and sunset on a live tracker, a twelve-month table of times, the dates of the year's earliest and latest sunsets, the Sun's midday height by season, a golden-hour calendar, clear-sky solar-energy figures, and where the city ranks against the rest of the country.