alaska hours of daylight
Daylight Hours: 15 hours, 29 minutes (-5m 34s) The Sun's altitude in Anchorage today. The horizontal line signifies the horizon, the vertical lines show the times of sunrise and sunset. Altitude and heading are displayed in the box on the right. The graph defaults to current time. In April it was just like here, got dark at night. As the summer progressed there was less and less dark. Like the sun didn't set till 1 AM. There was one day that the sun didn't go down at all, so there was 48 hours of light. On the days leading to that one day.. the night would just look like the sun was going to set and get dusty and then a few hours it would be light again. Sunshine & Daylight Hours in Nome, Alaska, Usa. 1  The longest day of the year is 20:43 long and the shortest day is 3:16 long. 2  The longest day is 17:26 longer than the shortest day.  There is an average of 1884 hours of sunlight per year (of a possible 4383) with an average of 5:09 of sunlight per day. This article is about the time zone with daylight change in North America. For the static time zone, see UTC−09:00. The Alaska Time Zone observes standard time by subtracting nine hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−09:00). During daylight saving time its time offset is eight hours (UTC−08:00). The clock time in this zone is based on mean solar time at the 135th meridian west of the Greenwich Observatory. The zone includes nearly all of the U.S. state of Alaska and is one hour behind the Pacific Time Zone. 1 The longest day is 17:26 longer than the shortest day. 2  There is an average of 1884 hours of sunlight per year (of a possible 4383) with an average of 5:09 of sunlight per day.  It is sunny 43% of daylight hours. The remaining 57% of daylight hours are likely cloudy or with shade, haze or low sun intensity. 1 The longest day of the year is 20:43 long and the shortest day is 3:16 long. 2  The longest day is 17:26 longer than the shortest day. 3  There is an average of 1884 hours of sunlight per year (of a possible 4383) with an average of 5:09 of sunlight per day.  It is sunny 43% of daylight hours. In the winter, the Interior gets about 4, maybe 4 1/2 hours of daylight. Barrow bids farewell to the sun entirely for about 6 weeks, and places like Anchorage or Juneau have around 6 or 7 hours of daylight. Again, for Barrow, though the sun technically never rises, there's still light around the edges of the horizon, so it's not pitch black 24/7. Night, Twilight, and Daylight Times in Anchorage Today. Day, night, and twilight times in Anchorage today. Black is nighttime, light blue is daytime. The darker blue shadings represent the twilight phases during dawn (left) and dusk (right). Hover over the graph for more information. This means that when a clock correctly set to Alaska time, at a location just east of 169°30′ W, shows noon, local solar time is actually around 9:42 a.m. When UTC−8 is applied in the summer (because of daylight saving time), this effect becomes even more apparent. Sunshine & Daylight Hours in Nome, Alaska, Usa. 1  Records suggest sunshine hours in Nome, Alaska range from 1:21 each day in December to 9:54 for each day in June.  The longest day of the year is 20:43 long and the shortest day is 3:16 long.
The longest day of the year is 20:43 long and the shortest day is 3:16 long.