Sunrise & sunset times in Reykjavik

Sun and moon in Reykjavik

Landscape and street photographers who plan around the light rely on the daily sun and moon schedule for Reykjavik, Iceland. This page shows live sunrise, sunset, solar noon, day length, morning and evening golden hour, blue hour, dawn and dusk, plus the current moon phase and the moonrise and moonset times for Reykjavik. Every value is calculated in the browser for the date you pick and shown in the local time of Reykjavik, Iceland. Reykjavik sits at roughly 64.15 degrees north, in the northern hemisphere, so it sees an enormous seasonal swing, with long luminous summer evenings that barely darken and short winter days where the sun sits low for only a few hours. Because the length of the day changes with the seasons, the exact sunrise and sunset in Reykjavik shift from week to week. Pick any date with the date picker to see how the light will fall on a specific day, which is handy for planning a shoot, an event, a wedding, a flight or simply the best moment to catch the last warm light of the evening. Golden hour, that soft warm window near sunrise and sunset, is the favourite of photographers in Reykjavik. Blue hour, the cooler stretch just before sunrise and just after sunset, is ideal for cityscapes and long exposures. Combined with the moon phase and moon times, this gives you a complete picture of natural light over Reykjavik, Iceland for any day of the year.

What time is sunset in Reykjavik today?

The sun sets in Reykjavik at 18:53 today, Friday, 2 October 2026, in Reykjavik's own local time. The warm light starts well before that: evening golden hour opens at 17:48, giving 1h 5m of low golden light before the sun reaches the horizon. Sunset is not the end of the light either. Last light, the moment usable daylight ends at civil dusk, follows 47 minutes later at 19:40, and the sky is properly dark at 21:36, 2h 43m after sunset.

Tomorrow the sun sets at 18:49 in Reykjavik. That is 3 minutes 32 seconds earlier than today. Over the coming week sunset moves 24 minutes 35 seconds earlier.

Planning around the light? See golden hour in Reykjavik.

Is the day getting longer or shorter in Reykjavik right now?

Reykjavik gets 11h 14m of daylight today, from sunrise to sunset. Tomorrow will be 6 minutes 26 seconds shorter. Over the next seven days Reykjavik loses 45 minutes 7 seconds of daylight.

That pace is not constant. In Reykjavik the day length changes fastest around April, when it moves by about 6 minutes 40 seconds per day, and it slows almost to a stop at the solstices in June and December. The word solstice means exactly that: the sun standing still.

When are the earliest and latest sunrise and sunset in Reykjavik?

The earliest sunset of 2026 in Reykjavik falls on 18 December at 15:28, 3 days before the December solstice, and the latest on 22 June at 00:04, after midnight.

Sunrise runs on its own schedule: earliest on 20 June at 02:55, latest on 25 December at 11:23, 4 days after the December solstice. The four dates in the table below do not line up with the solstices, and they are not supposed to. Earth's orbit is slightly elliptical and its axis is tilted, so the sun runs a few minutes fast or slow against clock time through the year. That offset, the equation of time, is what pushes the earliest sunset ahead of the shortest day and the latest sunrise behind it.

For the longest and shortest day themselves, see day length in Reykjavik.

How long does twilight last in Reykjavik?

First light in Reykjavik arrives 48 minutes before sunrise today, at 06:51. After sunset the light hangs on for another 47 minutes, until 19:40. That evening stretch is not the same all year in Reykjavik: it runs from 47 minutes at its shortest, in September, to 2h 43m at its longest, in May. The lower the angle at which the sun crosses the horizon, the longer twilight lasts, which is why dusk is a slow affair at high latitudes and abrupt near the equator.

For 145 nights of 2026, the longest stretch running from 10 April to 1 September, the sky over Reykjavik never gets fully dark. The sun stays within 18 degrees of the horizon all night, so astronomical twilight lasts straight through to dawn and the faintest stars never come out. On 111 of those nights it does not even reach 12 degrees below the horizon, so the sky holds a pale blue right through the small hours.

Full three-band twilight tables: dawn in Reykjavik and dusk in Reykjavik.

How high does the sun get in Reykjavik?

At midday on the June solstice the sun stands 49.3 degrees above the horizon in Reykjavik. On the December solstice it climbs only 2.7 degrees. A midday sun that low throws a shadow about 21.4 times the height of whatever casts it, so even at noon in midwinter the shadows in Reykjavik are long ones.

Frequently asked questions about Reykjavik

Data and methodology: every time on this page is computed from Reykjavik's coordinates with SunCalc, an open source astronomy library, not estimated or looked up from a table. Coordinates 64.15, -21.94, time zone Atlantic/Reykjavik. Accurate to about a minute for a flat, unobstructed horizon; terrain, tall buildings and atmospheric conditions can shift the moment the sun is actually visible by a few minutes. Full method on methodology.

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