Sunrise & sunset times in Tromso

Sun and moon in Tromso

Whether you are planning a sunrise photo walk or timing an evening run, the daily sun and moon schedule for Tromso is easy to check here. 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 Tromso. Every value is calculated in the browser for the date you pick and shown in the local time of Tromso, Norway. Tromso sits at roughly 69.65 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 Tromso 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 Tromso. 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 Tromso, Norway for any day of the year.

What time is sunset in Tromso today?

The sun sets in Tromso at 18:02 today, Friday, 2 October 2026, in Tromso's own local time. The warm light starts well before that: evening golden hour opens at 16:39, giving 1h 23m 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 59 minutes later at 19:01, and the sky is properly dark at 21:34, 3h 32m after sunset.

Tomorrow the sun sets at 17:57 in Tromso. That is 4 minutes 32 seconds earlier than today. Over the coming week sunset moves 31 minutes 44 seconds earlier.

Planning around the light? See golden hour in Tromso.

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

Tromso gets 11h 0m of daylight today, from sunrise to sunset. Tomorrow will be 8 minutes 27 seconds shorter. Over the next seven days Tromso loses 59 minutes 27 seconds of daylight.

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

The earliest sunset of 2026 in Tromso falls on 27 November at 11:41, the last sunset before the polar night, and the latest on 17 May at 00:28, after midnight.

Sunrise runs on its own schedule: earliest on 26 July at 01:05, latest on 15 January at 11:29, the first sunrise after the polar night. In Tromso these dates are set by the edges of the polar year rather than by any subtlety of the orbit: they are the last evening the sun still manages to set and the first morning it manages to rise again.

These are wall-clock times, so Tromso's daylight saving change is part of the picture: an hour moved by the clocks counts the same as an hour moved by the Earth.

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

How long does twilight last in Tromso?

First light in Tromso arrives 1h before sunrise today, at 06:02. After sunset the light hangs on for another 59 minutes, until 19:01. That evening stretch is not the same all year in Tromso: it runs from 59 minutes at its shortest, in October, to 2h 56m at its longest, in April. 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 105 nights of 2026, the longest stretch running from 26 July to 16 September, the sky over Tromso 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 74 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 Tromso and dusk in Tromso.

How high does the sun get in Tromso?

At midday on the June solstice the sun stands 43.8 degrees above the horizon in Tromso. On the December solstice it does not clear the horizon at all: even at the middle of the day it stays 2.6 degrees below it.

Tromso has 69 days of midnight sun in 2026, from 18 May to 25 July, when the sun does not set at all and there is no sunrise or sunset time to give.

The other side of that is the polar night: 48 days, from 28 November to 14 January, when the sun never clears the horizon in Tromso and there is no sunrise to give.

Frequently asked questions about Tromso

Data and methodology: every time on this page is computed from Tromso's coordinates with SunCalc, an open source astronomy library, not estimated or looked up from a table. Coordinates 69.65, 18.96, time zone Europe/Oslo. 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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