Longyearbyen in numbers
- Coordinates
- 78.2233, 15.6469
- Population
- 2 368
- Region
- Svalbard
- Country
- Svalbard And Jan Mayen, Europe
- Capital
- Longyearbyen — 0 km away
What time is it in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Svalbard And Jan Mayen
The reading below is the local time in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Svalbard And Jan Mayen, taken from the Arctic/Longyearbyen zone (+2).
Longyearbyen, Svalbard And Jan Mayen
Friday, 4 September 2026
UTC+2 · Arctic/Longyearbyen
Local time in Longyearbyen
UTC+2 · daylight saving time is active
What the clock shows right now in Longyearbyen.
The sun today
Sunrise 04:06 Solar noon 12:58 Sunset 21:50 Daylight 17 h 44 min Night 6 h 16 min
Weather in Longyearbyen right now
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Longyearbyen and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 9170
- 9171
Postal codes come from the free GeoNames dataset. Where a code is listed with a distance, it belongs to a nearby settlement — GeoNames spells that name differently from ours.
Largest cities in Svalbard
- Sveagruva 300
- Barentsburg 297
- Nybyen 113
- Ny-Alesund 35
- Herwighamma 9
- Pyramiden 5
Nearby places
- Haugen — 0.8 km
- Nybyen — 2.7 km
- Svalbard — 8.9 km
- Grumantbyen — 13.3 km
- Sveagruva — 43.6 km
- Pyramiden — 50.3 km
Local time details for Longyearbyen
Today's sunrise at Longyearbyen falls at 04:06; sunset follows at 21:50. Between them lie 17 h 44 min of daylight.
Longyearbyen keeps the same time as its neighbours Haugen and Nybyen.
Longyearbyen includes 2 postal codes.
Clocks in Longyearbyen take Arctic/Longyearbyen as their zone, reading UTC+2. Daylight saving time applies: Yes.
Questions and answers
- Is Longyearbyen in a specific time zone?
- Yes, Longyearbyen is in the Arctic/Longyearbyen time zone, with an offset of +2.
- Is there a daylight saving adjustment to the time in Longyearbyen?
- Yes.
- When does daylight begin in Longyearbyen?
- Daylight begins at 04:06.