Worth stopping for
Port au Choix
Getting here
To Port au Choix from every airport and ferry, measured by road.
No photograph of Port au Choix yet.
Taken one? Send it and we credit you by name.
Sunrise and sunset at Port au Choix, by month
| The 15th | First light | Sunrise | Sunset | Last light |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 7:37 am | 8:14 am | 4:41 pm | 5:19 pm |
| Feb | 6:58 am | 7:32 am | 5:34 pm | 6:08 pm |
| Mar | 7:01 am | 7:34 am | 7:23 pm | 7:55 pm |
| Apr | 5:51 am | 6:26 am | 8:13 pm | 8:47 pm |
| May | 4:50 am | 5:31 am | 8:59 pm | 9:40 pm |
| Jun | 4:19 am | 5:05 am | 9:33 pm | 10:19 pm |
| Jul | 4:39 am | 5:23 am | 9:27 pm | 10:10 pm |
| Aug | 5:29 am | 6:06 am | 8:41 pm | 9:18 pm |
| Sep | 6:20 am | 6:53 am | 7:35 pm | 8:08 pm |
| Oct | 7:08 am | 7:41 am | 6:28 pm | 7:01 pm |
| Nov | 6:58 am | 7:34 am | 4:34 pm | 5:10 pm |
| Dec | 7:35 am | 8:14 am | 4:14 pm | 4:53 pm |
Worked out for the 15th of each month at this spot, in local time. First and last light are when the sun is 6° below the horizon: light enough to see and shoot by. The weather line at the top has today's.
On the way to…
The one real spur on the Viking Trail. The town's national historic site holds thousands of years of burial and settlement archaeology; people fished this point for millennia before the Norse sailed. 29 km out and back, plus time at the site.
Stopping here adds about 29 km to that drive (436 km start to finish).
Reached by Route 430-28 from Port Saunders. The Maritime Archaic and Dorset peoples lived here long before Europeans arrived, per the province's tourism site, and the French Rooms Cultural Centre tells part of the story of five centuries of fishing.
Stopping here adds about 30 km to that drive (476 km start to finish).
Port aux Basques → L'Anse aux Meadows →
Stopping here adds about 29 km to that drive (701 km start to finish).
Stopping here adds about 29 km to that drive (740 km start to finish).
Argentia → L'Anse aux Meadows →
Stopping here adds about 29 km to that drive (1027 km start to finish).
Stopping here adds about 29 km to that drive (1071 km start to finish).
Fortune → L'Anse aux Meadows →
Stopping here adds about 29 km to that drive (1113 km start to finish).
Use another map app
Apple Maps · Google Maps · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeWhat the map knows
Mapped as place: town in OpenStreetMap.
While you're stopped here: Point Riche Lighthouse (3.7 km away)
From OpenStreetMap, 2026-09-05 (last edited 2020-07-21). Listed, not recommended. How we measure
Access: step-free or not isn't recorded. Ask before you go.
Pin and figures from OpenStreetMap node/107364109 →