North Slope Borough Sunrise, Sunset and Moon in May 2026
Day length goes from 18 h 39 min on May 1 to 24 h 00 min on May 31. Sunrise moves from 4:48 AM to and sunset from 11:27 PM to .
Every day
Dawn and dusk are civil twilight (the sun 6 degrees below the horizon); golden hour starts when the evening sun is 6 degrees up; full dark is astronomical twilight, 18 degrees down. A blank moonrise or moonset means it falls on the next day.
| Date | Dawn | Sunrise | Sunset | Dusk | Golden hour | Full dark | Day length | Change | Moon | Moonrise | Moonset |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1 | 4:48 AM | 11:27 PM | 9:45 PM | 18 h 39 min | Full moon 9:24 AM | 3:38 AM | |||||
| May 2 | 4:42 AM | 11:32 PM | 9:48 PM | 18 h 50 min | +11.0 min | Full moon, 99% | |||||
| May 3 | 4:37 AM | 11:37 PM | 9:52 PM | 19 h 00 min | +10.0 min | Waning gibbous, 96% | |||||
| May 4 | 4:31 AM | 11:43 PM | 9:55 PM | 19 h 12 min | +12.0 min | Waning gibbous, 91% | |||||
| May 5 | 4:26 AM | 11:48 PM | 9:59 PM | 19 h 22 min | +10.0 min | Waning gibbous, 84% | |||||
| May 6 | 4:20 AM | 11:54 PM | 10:02 PM | 19 h 34 min | +12.0 min | Waning gibbous, 76% | |||||
| May 7 | 4:14 AM | 12:00 AM | 10:05 PM | 19 h 46 min | +12.0 min | Waning gibbous, 66% | |||||
| May 8 | 4:08 AM | 12:06 AM | 10:09 PM | 19 h 58 min | +12.0 min | Last quarter, 55% | |||||
| May 9 | 4:02 AM | 12:13 AM | 10:12 PM | 20 h 11 min | +13.0 min | Last quarter 1:11 PM | 6:09 AM | 10:44 AM | |||
| May 10 | 3:55 AM | 12:19 AM | 10:16 PM | 20 h 24 min | +13.0 min | Waning crescent, 34% | 5:27 AM | 1:01 PM | |||
| May 11 | 3:49 AM | 12:26 AM | 10:19 PM | 20 h 37 min | +13.0 min | Waning crescent, 25% | 4:58 AM | 3:04 PM | |||
| May 12 | 3:42 AM | 12:34 AM | 10:23 PM | 20 h 52 min | +15.0 min | Waning crescent, 16% | 4:34 AM | 5:05 PM | |||
| May 13 | 3:34 AM | 12:41 AM | 10:26 PM | 21 h 07 min | +15.0 min | Waning crescent, 9% | 4:10 AM | 7:15 PM | |||
| May 14 | 3:26 AM | 12:50 AM | 10:29 PM | 21 h 24 min | +17.0 min | Waning crescent, 4% | 3:43 AM | 9:46 PM | |||
| May 15 | 3:18 AM | 12:59 AM | 10:33 PM | 21 h 41 min | +17.0 min | New moon, 1% | 3:01 AM | ||||
| May 16 | 3:09 AM | 1:10 AM | 10:36 PM | 22 h 01 min | +20.0 min | New moon 12:02 PM | |||||
| May 17 | 2:58 AM | 1:22 AM | 10:39 PM | 22 h 24 min | +23.0 min | Waxing crescent, 1% | |||||
| May 18 | 2:46 AM | 1:40 AM | 10:42 PM | 22 h 54 min | +30.0 min | Waxing crescent, 5% | |||||
| May 19 | Up all day | 10:46 PM | 24 h 00 min | +66.0 min | Waxing crescent, 10% | ||||||
| May 20 | Up all day | 10:49 PM | 24 h 00 min | +0.0 min | Waxing crescent, 18% | ||||||
| May 21 | Up all day | 10:52 PM | 24 h 00 min | +0.0 min | Waxing crescent, 27% | 7:26 AM | 6:37 AM | ||||
| May 22 | Up all day | 10:55 PM | 24 h 00 min | +0.0 min | Waxing crescent, 37% | 10:57 AM | 4:55 AM | ||||
| May 23 | Up all day | 10:58 PM | 24 h 00 min | +0.0 min | First quarter 3:11 AM | 1:10 PM | 4:20 AM | ||||
| May 24 | Up all day | 11:01 PM | 24 h 00 min | +0.0 min | First quarter, 58% | 3:08 PM | 3:54 AM | ||||
| May 25 | Up all day | 11:04 PM | 24 h 00 min | +0.0 min | Waxing gibbous, 68% | 5:00 PM | 3:32 AM | ||||
| May 26 | Up all day | 11:07 PM | 24 h 00 min | +0.0 min | Waxing gibbous, 77% | 6:54 PM | 3:09 AM | ||||
| May 27 | Up all day | 11:10 PM | 24 h 00 min | +0.0 min | Waxing gibbous, 86% | 9:01 PM | 2:43 AM | ||||
| May 28 | Up all day | 11:13 PM | 24 h 00 min | +0.0 min | Waxing gibbous, 92% | 2:06 AM | |||||
| May 29 | Up all day | 11:16 PM | 24 h 00 min | +0.0 min | Waxing gibbous, 97% | ||||||
| May 30 | Up all day | 11:18 PM | 24 h 00 min | +0.0 min | Full moon, 100% | ||||||
| May 31 | Up all day | 11:21 PM | 24 h 00 min | +0.0 min | Full moon 12:46 AM |
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Sources
Computed with the NOAA solar position equations and the lunar methods of Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms, for a flat horizon; hills and buildings delay a real sunrise.