Solar almanac · 2026-05-15 · Greenland

Golden hour in Nuuk in May

64.1836° N
51.7214° W
America/Nuuk

Daily solar times for May 2026 in local time (America/Nuuk).

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Golden hour & blue hour

Window	Starts	Ends
Blue hour (morning)	—	03:28
Golden hour (morning)	05:11	06:35
Golden hour (evening)	22:12	23:37
Blue hour (evening)	01:25	—

Light profile · calculated

Golden hour in Nuuk through the year

Midsummer: 118 min
Equinox: 63 min
Midwinter: —

Length of the evening golden-hour window.

Nuuk lies at 64.18° N, in the subpolar zone, with drawn-out twilight either side of midsummer. Its longest measured day falls on Sat 20 June 2026 with 21h 11m of daylight, and its shortest on Sun 20 December 2026 with 4h 06m — a difference of 17h 05m between the two extremes.

The sun sets toward 341° NNW in late June and toward 208° SSW in late December, a shift of about 133° in where the last light lands — worth checking before committing to a west-facing viewpoint. In Nuuk, around midsummer the sky never reaches full darkness — evening blue hour runs into morning twilight.

Reference day · 2026-05-15

+7 min/day

Sunrise: 05:11
Sunset: 23:37
Solar noon: 14:23
Day length: 18h 26m

Daylight envelope · May

+3h 11m

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Each bar is one day. The cool line traces sunrise; the warm line traces sunset.

May averages

Avg sunrise: 05:09
Avg sunset: 15:55
Avg day length: 18h 31m
Day length change: +3h 11m

Date	Sunrise	Sunset	Day length
2026-05-01	05:58	22:51	16h 53m
2026-05-02	05:55	22:54	17h 00m
2026-05-03	05:51	22:58	17h 06m
2026-05-04	05:48	23:01	17h 13m
2026-05-05	05:44	23:04	17h 20m
2026-05-06	05:41	23:07	17h 26m
2026-05-07	05:38	23:11	17h 33m
2026-05-08	05:34	23:14	17h 40m
2026-05-09	05:31	23:17	17h 46m
2026-05-10	05:28	23:21	17h 53m
2026-05-11	05:24	23:24	18h 00m
2026-05-12	05:21	23:27	18h 06m
2026-05-13	05:18	23:30	18h 13m
2026-05-14	05:14	23:34	18h 19m
2026-05-15	05:11	23:37	18h 26m
2026-05-16	05:08	23:40	18h 32m
2026-05-17	05:05	23:44	18h 39m
2026-05-18	05:01	23:47	18h 45m
2026-05-19	04:58	23:50	18h 52m
2026-05-20	04:55	23:53	18h 58m
2026-05-21	04:52	23:57	19h 04m
2026-05-22	04:49	00:00	19h 11m
2026-05-23	04:46	00:03	19h 17m
2026-05-24	04:43	00:06	19h 23m
2026-05-25	04:40	00:09	19h 29m
2026-05-26	04:37	00:12	19h 35m
2026-05-27	04:34	00:15	19h 41m
2026-05-28	04:31	00:18	19h 47m
2026-05-29	04:29	00:21	19h 53m
2026-05-30	04:26	00:24	19h 58m
2026-05-31	04:23	00:27	20h 04m

Annual light rhythm · Nuuk

4h 12m—21h 05m

Longest days in June (21h 05m), shortest in December (4h 12m).