Sunrise in Rovaniemi today

Rovaniemi lies at 67°N. Rovaniemi experiences midnight sun near midsummer — the sun stays up or below the horizon for weeks at a time.

The sun comes up over the east-southeast horizon in Rovaniemi today, at a bearing of 103°. It starts getting light 52 minutes before that, when civil twilight begins. The sun rises 8 minutes later in Rovaniemi than in Helsinki, 705 km to the south. Rovaniemi is the northernmost of the 42 cities we cover in Finland, so its daylight swings further over the year than any of them.

Sunrise shifts earlier through spring and later through autumn — changing fastest near the equinoxes and barely at all near the summer and winter solstices. See the year chart to visualise how sunrise and sunset times shift month by month for Rovaniemi.

The longest day in Rovaniemi is around Midnight sun (around June 21). The shortest is around 2h 15m (around December 21). Days are currently getting shorter — losing about 7 minutes per day.