One of our most asked questions refers to the amount of daylight we get at different times of the year. Here's how much daylight we had in Anchorage on the 21st of each month in 2005. According to retired National Weather Service employee Jim Green, now owner of Williwaw Publishing and author of the Alaska Weather Calendar, the length of each day changes by only a minute or two each year, thus the 2005 data is as close to accurate as possible for 2007. In the next month we will be gaining 3 hours of daylight or 6 minutes per day on average.

HERE COMES THE SUN
• Jan. 21: 6 hours, 53 minutes
• Feb. 21: 9 hours, 41 minutes
• March 21: 12 hours, 22 minutes
• April 21: 15 hours, 20 minutes
• May 21: 18 hours even
• June 21: 19 hours, 22 minutes
THERE GOES THE SUN
• July 21: 18 hours even
• Aug. 21: 15 hours, 15 minutes
• Sept. 21: 12 hours, 19 minutes
• Oct. 21: 9 hours, 29 minutes
• Nov. 21: 6 hours, 46 minutes
• Dec. 21: 5 hours, 27 minutes
-- SOURCE: U.S. Naval Observatory, Astronomical Applications Department, Washington, D.C.