Residents in Morden, Manitoba, are seeing longer days this week as the sun began setting after 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 2, 2026. The region is gaining about three minutes of extra sunlight each day — one of the steepest seasonal increases in daylight the community experiences each year.
That shift means people driving home from work on Highway 3 or Provincial Road 432 (PR 432) will have better visibility during the evening rush hour. According to calculations from the National Research Council Canada’s sunrise/sunset tools and Timeanddate.com, the community will gain roughly an hour and a half of daylight over the course of February.
The extra evening light is also extending opportunities for local outdoor recreation. Lake Minnewasta — managed by the City of Morden — offers winter activities such as cross-country skiing and ice fishing, and recreation staff and local observers say evening trail and lake use typically rises as sunsets move later.
Astronomical timing for Morden’s location supports the change: Timeanddate.com shows the sunset passed 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 2 and will be about 5:37 p.m. by Feb. 6, 2026. The later sunsets are widely welcomed as a morale boost after the darker winter weeks, a trend reported by local outlets such as PembinaValleyOnline.
