Sunrise in Tromsø today

Tromsø lies at 70°N. Tromsø experiences midnight sun near midsummer and polar night near midwinter — the sun stays up or below the horizon for weeks at a time.

The sun comes up over the east-southeast horizon in Tromsø today, at a bearing of 105°. It starts getting light 60 minutes before that, when civil twilight begins. The sun rises 13 minutes earlier in Tromsø than in Oslo, 1148 km to the south-southwest. Tromsø is the northernmost of the 33 cities we cover in Norway, so its daylight swings further over the year than any of them.

The time of sunrise slides 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 Tromsø.

The longest day in Tromsø is around Midnight sun (around June 21). The shortest is around Polar night (around December 21). Days are currently getting shorter — losing about 9 minutes per day.