How much sunlight does Anchorage get?

[Bear Paw Jack]

Well we haven't hit the longest day yet but to give you a feel for it.
Sunrise 4:30 am
Sunset 11:26 pm
But, how much sleep do you need?

See below

 

[Hawk-in-Wi]

5 hours of darkness more or less ,, that's actually more than I thought you guys got

for me it's
5:22am
8:42pm

 

[gnappi]

In Waaayyy northern climes folks use military time because of the vast differences between summer and winter daylight hours.

I spent a lot of time in Finland in both summer and winter. During summer it went dark for only a few hours a night and only room blackout drapes made it possible to sleep. In winter the sun was only up for a short time. You could watch the sun travel across the horizon in an arc... weird.

There's a handy calculator the solar power industry uses for usable daylight hours.

https://footprinthero.com/peak-sun-hours-calculator

 

[Bear Paw Jack]

The further north you go the more sunlight throughout the day. Get to Barrow and you get 24 hours.

 

[Dan in MI]

I celebrated the 4th of July in Circle back in 1969. Being a kid it was awesome to still have sunlight at 11;30 pm.

 

[Armybrat]

It gave my Dad’s troops more daylight time to hunt Japanese soldiers on Attu in the Summer of 1943.

 

[BC in TN]

Well we haven't hit the longest day yet but to give you a feel for it.
Sunrise 4:30 am
Sunset 11:26 pm
But, how much sleep do you need?

Just wait until early July if you are around Fairbanks !

 

[bishopm14]

I know I’m in the minority, but when I was stationed in Anchorage I much preferred the darker months to nonstop light.
Just because there’s an official sunrise and sunset time, doesn’t mean it got truly dark. Definitely not my cup of tea.

 

[sfhogman]

I remember landing at Elmendorf AFB after a deployment to Southeast Asia. As I stepped off the C141 I felt the cool, dry air and smelled the pines...and thought, THIS is America!
Thank God.

 

[Wyandot Jim]

We were in Fairbanks in early July. I was told by the Grandkids that it was still light at 2AM. My blinds were closed

Today sunrise 3:21 am sunset 0:19 AM Land of the Midnight Sun for a reason

 

[TINCANBANDIT is back]

every place on the planet gets the same amount of daylight over the course of the year ('cept for maybe Antarctica).

Some just get shorter days in the winter and longer days in the summer, this gets magnified the farther you get from the equator.

 

[KIR]

Sunshine is measured using either Campbell-Stokes sunshine recorders or modern sunshine sensors. So, unless you want to get technical...

 

[Bear Paw Jack]

For Solstice we will have 19 hours and 21 minutes.


We get there with Sunrise at 4:20 am and
11:42 for sunset. If you want to enjoy it or even see it start planning for next year.

 

[nrobe50]

Sunlight in Anchorage in the summer? Typically 60 degrees overcast with a light drizzle.