Sun position in Whitehorse

Sun times in Whitehorse on 3 November 2026

Times are computed for 60.7161°, -135.0538° and refreshed every day. For any other date, an exact azimuth or a shadow drawn on the map, open the interactive sun position map for Whitehorse.

The sun’s path over Whitehorse

How high the sun stands and where, from sunrise to sunset: today, at both solstices and at the equinox. The higher a curve climbs, the higher the sun; where a curve meets the bottom line, the sun rises or sets at that compass bearing.

The sun through the year in Whitehorse

At the June solstice the midday sun reaches 52.7° above the horizon in Whitehorse and the day lasts 19 h 09 min. At the December solstice the sun climbs only to 5.8° and the day shrinks to 5 h 38 min. That difference is what decides whether a garden, a window or a solar array sees the sun in winter. The noon shadow column gives the length of the shadow of anything one metre tall.

Whitehorse through 2026 at a glance

• At solar noon the sun in Whitehorse always stands due south, so the south side of a building, a garden or a roof is the one that gets the sun.
• White nights: from 14 June to 26 June the sun sets but never sinks more than 6° below the horizon, so it stays light enough to read outdoors all night.
• From 19 April to 22 August the sky over Whitehorse never gets fully dark: the sun stays less than 18° below the horizon all night, so there is no true astronomical night.
• The earliest sunset is on 16 December, 5 days before the shortest day (21 December), and the latest sunrise on 26 December, 5 days after it. Solar noon drifts through the year, so the darkest afternoon and the darkest morning do not fall on the shortest day.
• The longest day in Whitehorse is 13 h 32 min longer than the shortest, and around the equinoxes the days grow or shrink by up to 5.6 minutes a day.

The winter solstice 2026: the moment, and the shortest and the longest day, city by city →

When the days start getting longer: the earliest sunset, the latest sunrise and lighter evenings, city by city →

Planning around the sun in Whitehorse

Solar panels

At 60.7° N a fixed array facing due south collects the most over a year at a tilt of about 49°. Use the solar panel angle calculator with the coordinates 60.7161°, -135.0538° for the exact optimum, the seasonal optima and the loss from an east or west facing roof.

Buying a flat or a plot

At the December solstice the noon sun in Whitehorse sits 5.8° above the horizon, so every obstacle casts a shadow 9.8 times its own height at midday. Check what stands to the south before you commit: place the building on the map and read the shaded hours for 21 December.

Photography

Golden hour runs 09:32–10:44 in the morning and 16:43–17:55 in the evening today, and the sun sets toward WSW (239°). The golden hour calculator gives the same windows for any date, and the map’s alignment finder shows the days when the setting sun lines up with a street.

More on planning around the sun: which way a house, garden or balcony should face, how long golden hour lasts and why the earliest sunset comes before the shortest day.

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On the same latitude

Whitehorse lies at 60.7° N. On the same parallel the longest and the shortest day last just as long and the noon sun climbs just as high, whatever the clocks say there:

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