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Sunrise and sunset times in Princess Elisabeth Station

Check out today's and tomorrow's sunrise and sunset times in Princess Elisabeth Station, as well as the whole calendar for October 2026.

This is a summer-only station: people work here only from about November to February.

Today

October 31, 2026. Current time: 7:56:44 pm

Sunrise time: 12:31:26 amWhen the top edge of the Sun appears over a flat, clear horizon. Behind hills, mountains or buildings the Sun appears a few minutes later (or more in a valley).

Sunset time: 7:54:57 pmWhen the top edge of the Sun disappears below a flat, clear horizon. Behind hills, mountains or buildings the Sun disappears a few minutes earlier (or more in a valley).

Twilight all nightThe Sun stays less than 6° below the horizon all night: civil twilight lasts from sunset to sunrise, and it never gets dark enough to need artificial light outdoors.

Sun position chart

Now · Sun altitude: -0.90° (below the horizon) · Azimuth: 212.22° (SW)

Daylight   Golden Hour   Blue Hour   Twilight   Night

Day length: 19 hours, 23 minutes

Sunset in Princess Elisabeth Station was 1 minute ago

Moonrise: Nov 2, 4:15 am Moonset: Nov 2, 5:47 amMoon phase: 🌔 Waning Gibbous (62%)🌑 New moon: Nov 9 at 7:02 am · 🌕 Full moon: Nov 24 at 2:53 pm

Tomorrow

November 1, 2026

Sunrise time: 12:23:57 amWhen the top edge of the Sun appears over a flat, clear horizon. Behind hills, mountains or buildings the Sun appears a few minutes later (or more in a valley).

Sunset time: 8:02:43 pmWhen the top edge of the Sun disappears below a flat, clear horizon. Behind hills, mountains or buildings the Sun disappears a few minutes earlier (or more in a valley).

Twilight all nightThe Sun stays less than 6° below the horizon all night: civil twilight lasts from sunset to sunrise, and it never gets dark enough to need artificial light outdoors.

Day length: 19 hours, 38 minutes

Tomorrow will be approximately 15 minutes longer than today in Princess Elisabeth Station

Moonrise: Nov 2, 4:15 am Moonset: Nov 2, 5:47 amMoon phase: 🌓 Last Quarter (48%)

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• Princess Elisabeth Station, East Antarctica
• Also known as Princess Elisabeth Antarctica
• Latitude: -71.949944 (South)
• Longitude: 23.34708 (East)
• Time zone: Coordinated Universal Time (UTC, UTC+0)

Princess Elisabeth Station is so far south that it experiences:

Midnight sun: the Sun does not set

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The Sun sets again on Feb 1

Polar night: the Sun does not rise

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The Sun rises again on Jul 29

Calculated for a flat horizon. Mountains can make polar night longer and the midnight sun shorter.

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October 2026 - Princess Elisabeth Station, East Antarctica - Sunrise and sunset calendar

Sunrise and sunset times, civil twilight start and end times as well as solar noon, and day length for every day of October in Princess Elisabeth Station.

All times are in Princess Elisabeth Station's time: Coordinated Universal Time (UTC, UTC+0).

The day length increases by 5 hours, 41 minutes over the course of October 2026 in Princess Elisabeth Station, East Antarctica - from 13 hours, 42 minutes on the first day to 19 hours, 23 minutes on the last day.

Year distribution of sunrise and sunset times in Princess Elisabeth Station, East Antarctica - 2026

The following graph shows sunrise and sunset times in Princess Elisabeth Station, East Antarctica for every day of the year.

Princess Elisabeth Station Analemma

Due to Earth's tilted axis and slightly elliptical orbit, the Sun is never seen in the same position at noon in Princess Elisabeth Station. Throughout the year, it slowly traces this figure-eight:

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Princess Elisabeth Station analemma interactive visualizer.
Move along the curve to read the Sun's altitude and azimuth for any day of the year in Princess Elisabeth Station.

Over the year, the 12:00 Sun ranges from 6.7° below the horizon (around Jun 21) to 39.7° above it (around Dec 24) in Princess Elisabeth Station. The smaller loop hangs at the bottom, the signature of a Southern Hemisphere analemma. For about 93 days around midwinter the whole figure sinks below the horizon — the Sun does not rise at noon at all. Notice the whole figure leans west of the meridian: over Princess Elisabeth Station the Sun reaches its highest point between 10:10 and 10:40 depending on the time of year, but always before 12:00.

Detailed Analemma Chart

See a technical version of this analemma, with exact dates and Sun altitudes, and download it in high resolution.

The technical chart below plots one dot per day, labels the first day of each month, marks the solstices, equinoxes, perihelion and aphelion, and draws the noon altitude of the equinoxes (90° minus your latitude) together with its ±23.4° seasonal limits.

Download Princess Elisabeth Station Analemma Chart (SVG)

Why does the figure look wider here than in the sky view above?

Both draw the same data, but with different conventions. The sky view uses the same scale on both axes, so it shows the analemma with its true proportions, as a camera would capture it: about 47° tall and only a few degrees wide. This chart, like most technical analemma diagrams, stretches each axis independently to fill the plot, expanding the narrow azimuth range several times so its day-to-day variation can actually be read. Also, azimuth is not sky distance: near the zenith, one degree of azimuth spans much less than one degree across the sky, which further widens the figure in this representation.