Sunrise and sunset in Kovdor

The sun comes up at 9:42 am and goes down at 3:40 pm in Kovdor today, 5 h 58 min of daylight. Drag the sun across the sky to see where it will be at any minute. Another city.

Kovdor, Murmansk, Russia

Tuesday, November 10

Sunrise9:42 am
Sunset3:40 pm

10:27 am the sun is low in the south-southeast, golden hour

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KOVDOR 67.57 N 30.48 E DAY 5 H 58 MIN UTC+3

Today, hour by hour

First light
6:18 am astronomical dawn
Nautical dawn
7:22 am horizon becomes visible
Dawn
8:31 am civil twilight begins
Sunrise
9:42 am
Golden hour
8:57 am to 12:41 pm morning
Solar noon
12:41 pm sun 5 degrees up
Golden hour
12:41 pm to 4:25 pm evening
Sunset
3:40 pm
Dusk
4:51 pm civil twilight ends
Nautical dusk
6:00 pm
Last light
7:03 pm astronomical dusk, full dark
Day length
5 h 58 min −8 min 23 s vs yesterday

The next thirty days

DaySunriseSunsetDay lengthChange
Today9:42 am3:40 pm5 h 58 min−8 min 23 s
Tomorrow9:46 am3:36 pm5 h 50 min−8 min 25 s
Thu, Nov 129:50 am3:32 pm5 h 42 min−8 min 27 s
Fri, Nov 139:55 am3:28 pm5 h 33 min−8 min 29 s
Sat, Nov 149:59 am3:24 pm5 h 25 min−8 min 31 s
Sun, Nov 1510:04 am3:20 pm5 h 16 min−8 min 33 s
Mon, Nov 1610:08 am3:16 pm5 h 07 min−8 min 35 s
Tue, Nov 1710:13 am3:11 pm4 h 59 min−8 min 37 s
Wed, Nov 1810:17 am3:07 pm4 h 50 min−8 min 39 s
Thu, Nov 1910:22 am3:03 pm4 h 41 min−8 min 42 s
Fri, Nov 2010:26 am2:59 pm4 h 33 min−8 min 44 s
Sat, Nov 2110:31 am2:55 pm4 h 24 min−8 min 47 s
Sun, Nov 2210:36 am2:51 pm4 h 15 min−8 min 49 s
Mon, Nov 2310:40 am2:47 pm4 h 06 min−8 min 52 s
Tue, Nov 2410:45 am2:43 pm3 h 57 min−8 min 54 s
Wed, Nov 2510:50 am2:38 pm3 h 48 min−8 min 57 s
Thu, Nov 2610:55 am2:34 pm3 h 39 min−9 min 00 s
Fri, Nov 2711:00 am2:30 pm3 h 30 min−9 min 03 s
Sat, Nov 2811:05 am2:26 pm3 h 21 min−9 min 06 s
Sun, Nov 2911:10 am2:22 pm3 h 12 min−9 min 10 s
Mon, Nov 3011:14 am2:17 pm3 h 03 min−9 min 13 s
Tue, Dec 111:20 am2:13 pm2 h 54 min−9 min 18 s
Wed, Dec 211:25 am2:09 pm2 h 44 min−9 min 22 s
Thu, Dec 311:30 am2:04 pm2 h 35 min−9 min 27 s
Fri, Dec 411:35 am2:00 pm2 h 25 min−9 min 33 s
Sat, Dec 511:40 am1:56 pm2 h 16 min−9 min 40 s
Sun, Dec 611:46 am1:51 pm2 h 06 min−9 min 48 s
Mon, Dec 711:51 am1:47 pm1 h 56 min−9 min 58 s
Tue, Dec 811:56 am1:42 pm1 h 46 min−10 min 10 s
Wed, Dec 912:02 pm1:37 pm1 h 35 min−10 min 26 s

Reading the sky band

The band is one day in Kovdor, midnight to midnight, in its own local time. The curve is the sun's height: above the line it is up, below it is not. The dark bands are the three twilights and night; the lighter stripe either side of sunrise and sunset is the golden hour, and the thin cool stripe after it is the blue hour. Drag the sun to any minute and the readout says how high it is and which way to look.

Dawn, sunrise, dusk and the three twilights

Sunrise and sunset are when the top edge of the sun meets a flat horizon, with refraction bending the light so it shows up a little early and lingers a little late (the sun's centre is 0.833 degrees below the horizon at that moment). Civil twilight is the sun within 6 degrees below: bright enough to work outside without lights. Nautical twilight runs to 12 degrees, when sailors could still see the horizon to shoot a star. Astronomical twilight runs to 18 degrees; after that the sky is as dark as it gets.

Why the times drift

Day length in Kovdor changes fastest around the equinoxes in March and September and stalls at the solstices in June and December. The change column in the table is today against yesterday, so you can watch the evenings draw in or stretch out. Hills, buildings and haze at your actual horizon shift the real moment by a minute or several; these are the times for a flat, clear horizon at sea level.

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