Sunrise and sunset in Murmansk

The sun comes up at 9:49 am and goes down at 3:12 pm in Murmansk today, 5 h 23 min of daylight. Drag the sun across the sky to see where it will be at any minute. Another city.

Murmansk, Russia

Tuesday, November 10

Sunrise9:49 am
Sunset3:12 pm

10:50 am the sun is low in the south-southeast, golden hour

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MURMANSK 68.97 N 33.10 E DAY 5 H 23 MIN UTC+3

Today, hour by hour

First light
6:08 am astronomical dawn
Nautical dawn
7:16 am horizon becomes visible
Dawn
8:30 am civil twilight begins
Sunrise
9:49 am
Golden hour
8:58 am to 12:31 pm morning
Solar noon
12:31 pm sun 4 degrees up
Golden hour
12:31 pm to 4:03 pm evening
Sunset
3:12 pm
Dusk
4:30 pm civil twilight ends
Nautical dusk
5:45 pm
Last light
6:52 pm astronomical dusk, full dark
Day length
5 h 23 min −9 min 46 s vs yesterday

The next thirty days

DaySunriseSunsetDay lengthChange
Today9:49 am3:12 pm5 h 23 min−9 min 46 s
Tomorrow9:54 am3:07 pm5 h 13 min−9 min 52 s
Thu, Nov 129:59 am3:02 pm5 h 03 min−9 min 59 s
Fri, Nov 1310:04 am2:57 pm4 h 53 min−10 min 06 s
Sat, Nov 1410:10 am2:52 pm4 h 43 min−10 min 14 s
Sun, Nov 1510:15 am2:47 pm4 h 32 min−10 min 23 s
Mon, Nov 1610:21 am2:42 pm4 h 22 min−10 min 33 s
Tue, Nov 1710:26 am2:37 pm4 h 11 min−10 min 43 s
Wed, Nov 1810:32 am2:32 pm4 h 00 min−10 min 55 s
Thu, Nov 1910:38 am2:26 pm3 h 49 min−11 min 09 s
Fri, Nov 2010:44 am2:21 pm3 h 37 min−11 min 24 s
Sat, Nov 2110:50 am2:15 pm3 h 26 min−11 min 42 s
Sun, Nov 2210:56 am2:10 pm3 h 14 min−12 min 02 s
Mon, Nov 2311:02 am2:04 pm3 h 01 min−12 min 27 s
Tue, Nov 2411:09 am1:57 pm2 h 48 min−12 min 56 s
Wed, Nov 2511:16 am1:51 pm2 h 35 min−13 min 33 s
Thu, Nov 2611:24 am1:44 pm2 h 20 min−14 min 20 s
Fri, Nov 2711:32 am1:37 pm2 h 05 min−15 min 23 s
Sat, Nov 2811:41 am1:29 pm1 h 48 min−16 min 52 s
Sun, Nov 2911:51 am1:20 pm1 h 29 min−19 min 11 s
Mon, Nov 3012:03 pm1:08 pm1 h 05 min−23 min 31 s
Tue, Dec 112:22 pm12:50 pm28 min−37 min 03 s
Wed, Dec 2——0 min
Thu, Dec 3——0 min
Fri, Dec 4——0 min
Sat, Dec 5——0 min
Sun, Dec 6——0 min
Mon, Dec 7——0 min
Tue, Dec 8——0 min
Wed, Dec 9——0 min

Reading the sky band

The band is one day in Murmansk, 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 Murmansk 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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