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Mallard Cottage, a white clapboard house with green trim from around 1820, on a lane in Quidi Vidi Village.
Mallard Cottage, a white clapboard house with green trim from around 1820, on a lane in Quidi Vidi Village.Photo: Skeezix1000 · source · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sunrise and sunset at Quidi Vidi, by month
Month (the 15th)SunriseSunset
January7:44 am4:34 pm
February7:07 am5:22 pm
March7:15 am7:05 pm
April6:12 am7:48 pm
May5:23 am8:29 pm
June5:02 am8:59 pm
July5:18 am8:55 pm
August5:56 am8:14 pm
September6:37 am7:14 pm
October7:18 am6:14 pm
November7:05 am4:25 pm
December7:42 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 → Signal Hill →

    A small village on its own harbour, north of Signal Hill. The Canadian Register of Historic Places lists Mallard Cottage here, a national historic site typical of the houses Irish immigrants built in the early 1800s, and the Quidi Vidi Battery, a provincial historic site rebuilt on the site of a British coastal battery.

    Stopping here adds about 2.7 km to that drive (9 km start to finish).

  2. Argentia → Signal Hill →

    Stopping here adds about 3.2 km to that drive (136 km start to finish).

  3. YQX → Signal Hill →

    Stopping here adds about 3.2 km to that drive (338 km start to finish).

  4. YDF → Signal Hill →

    Stopping here adds about 3.2 km to that drive (641 km start to finish).

  5. Port aux Basques → Signal Hill →

    Stopping here adds about 3.2 km to that drive (907 km start to finish).

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What the map knows

While you're stopped here: Signal Hill Visitor Centre (0.9 km away) · Cabot Tower (1 km away) · The Battery (1.1 km away)

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

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Quidi Vidi on the YYT → Signal Hill drive, 9 km from St. John's, start to finish.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line computed with OSRM.
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