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Cape Spear Lighthouse Museum

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To Cape Spear Lighthouse Museum from every airport and ferry, measured by road.

The square 1836 lighthouse with its lantern stands on the grassy headland at Cape Spear, with the newer white light tower and keeper's house to the left.
The square 1836 lighthouse with its lantern stands on the grassy headland at Cape Spear, with the newer white light tower and keeper's house to the left.Photo: Edsel Little · source · CC BY-SA 2.0
Sunrise and sunset at Cape Spear Lighthouse Museum, by month
Month (the 15th)SunriseSunset
January7:43 am4:34 pm
February7:06 am5:22 pm
March7:14 am7:05 pm
April6:12 am7:48 pm
May5:23 am8:29 pm
June5:02 am8:59 pm
July5:18 am8:54 pm
August5:56 am8:14 pm
September6:36 am7:14 pm
October7:18 am6:13 pm
November7:05 am4:25 pm
December7:41 am4:09 pm

Worked out for the 15th of each month at this spot, in local time. The weather line at the top has today's.

On the way to…

  1. YYT → Cape Spear →

    The end of the drive, and the lighthouse on the headland. Parks Canada's page for Cape Spear Lighthouse National Historic Site describes the oldest surviving lighthouse in Newfoundland and Labrador and the 19th century light-keeping families it interprets, and its activities page lists hiking, an interpretive trail, whale watching, bird watching and the remains of a Second World War coastal defence battery. Fees and exhibit hours are on Parks Canada's pages, linked below.

    Stopping here adds about 0.3 km to that drive (24 km start to finish).

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What the map knows

While you're stopped here: Blackhead One Room Church and School Museum (2.7 km away) · Cabot Tower (7.1 km away) · Signal Hill Visitor Centre (7.4 km away)

From OpenStreetMap, 2026-09-05. Listed, not recommended. How we measure

Access: step-free or not isn't recorded. Ask before you go.

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Cape Spear Lighthouse Museum on the YYT → Cape Spear drive, 24 km from St. John's, start to finish.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line computed with OSRM.
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