Time now in Svalbard

The zone identifier Arctic/Longyearbyen is the value you want in code, calendars and travel systems. Abbreviations change with the season, but Arctic/Longyearbyen keeps pointing at Longyearbyen time whatever the date, which is why every timestamp on this page is built from it.

Sunrise today lands at — and sunset at — local time, giving — of daylight. Those figures come from the city's own coordinates (78.16, 15.86) rather than a country-wide average, so they match what you would actually see from a window in Svalbard.

Svalbard sits at latitude 78.16, in the high-latitude band, so day length here swings sharply between midwinter and midsummer — today's — is one point on that curve, not a fixed value.