Quick answer: Svalbard is at an extreme latitude today, so the sun never crosses the normal golden-hour band — light stays low and warm for hours instead of an hour.
Conditions on this page are recalculated from the latest forecast every time it is opened, for the current date in the location's own time zone. Showing .
Photographers visiting Svalbard, Norway need precise local timing — and conditions. This page shows today's morning and evening golden hour windows, blue hour windows, civil twilight, sunrise and sunset for Svalbard in the city's local timezone, alongside a photography score that combines cloud cover, atmospheric clarity, wind speed and humidity. Use it to plan portrait sessions in soft side-light, capture skylines during the warm hour after sunrise, or schedule landscape shoots when haze is low. The page also previews the next 7 days of golden hour weather so you can pick the best day for your shoot in Svalbard, with a clear indication of forecast confidence and how stable the conditions are. All calculations are done with timezone-aware solar math, so the times shown are always correct for Svalbard regardless of where you load the page from.
Svalbard sits far enough from the equator that the sun's path today never produces a conventional golden-hour window. Plan around continuous low-angle light instead of a fixed hour.
Daylight, midday sun angle and golden-hour length below are calculated for Svalbard's own coordinates (78.22° N, 15.63° E) on the 15th of each month. Temperature and rain-day figures come from the curated climate record for this city.
| Month | Daylight | Sun at solar noon | Golden hour | Avg high / low, rain days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0 h (sun never rises) | 0° | No standard window | -8°C / -16°C, 9 rain days |
| February | 0 h (sun never rises) | 0° | No standard window | -8°C / -16°C, 9 rain days |
| March | 10 h 42 min | 9° | 218 min | -6°C / -13°C, 8 rain days |
| April | 20 h 0 min | 21° | 296 min | -2°C / -9°C, 8 rain days |
| May | 24 h (sun never sets) | 31° | No standard window | 2°C / -4°C, 3 rain days |
| June | 24 h (sun never sets) | 35° | No standard window | 6°C / 0°C, 2 rain days |
| July | 24 h (sun never sets) | 33° | No standard window | 8°C / 3°C, 2 rain days |
| August | 24 h (sun never sets) | 26° | 198 min | 8°C / 3°C, 5 rain days |
| September | 14 h 0 min | 14° | 204 min | 6°C / 0°C, 14 rain days |
| October | 5 h 36 min | 2° | 249 min | 2°C / -4°C, 14 rain days |
| November | 0 h (sun never rises) | 0° | No standard window | -2°C / -9°C, 12 rain days |
| December | 0 h (sun never rises) | 0° | No standard window | -6°C / -13°C, 8 rain days |
Scores are capped by dealbreakers — heavy rain, dangerous wind, thick fog or hazardous UV pull a day down no matter how pleasant the rest of the numbers look. Forecast data is Open-Meteo; solar and lunar values are computed for Svalbard's own coordinates and time zone. Full details on the methodology page.