The sun and the clock in Akureyri (2026)
Akureyri lies at 18.1°W. Its time zone, UTC+0, is built around the prime meridian (0°). The 18.1° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 72 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 13:12 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+0 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 23h 35m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 3h 4m. The swing between them is 20h 31m. Close to the Arctic or Antarctic circle, the year swings hard between long light and long dark.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Akureyri that civil twilight runs about 51 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 96 minutes at the solstice.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.