The White Nights (Beliye Nochi) are a curious phenomenon caused by St. St. Petersburg is the world’s most northern city with a population over 1 million, and its stands at such a high latitude that the sun does not descend below the horizon enough for the sky to grow dark.

In St. Petersburg, the grand city of the czars, they call them the “White Nights”: those 80 or so evenings, running from May to the end of July, when the city emerges from long months of cold and darkness and celebrates the brief return of nearly round-the-clock daylight.

During the Northern hemisphere’s summer, the North pole is tipped towards the sun, owing to the fact that the Earth revolves on a tilted axis. Hence from May-July, in cities with a particularly Northerly latitude, the sun never dips far beneath the horizon even at night.

The White Nights are all-night arts festival held in many cities in the summer. The white nights is the name given in areas of high latitude to the weeks around the summer solstice in June during which sunsets are late, sunrises are early and darkness is never complete.

The White Nights Festival is an annual summer festival in Saint Petersburg celebrating its near-midnight sun phenomena due to its location near the Arctic Circle; each year between around April 21 and August 21, the skies only reach twilight and never reach complete darkness.

St. Petersburg is so far north that it experiences nearly 24 hours a day of sunlight from mid-May to mid-July. Even when the sun is down — for a couple of hours after midnight — the sky is white.

With up to approximately 17:40 hours the longest days happen in Juni. On the other hand, the longest and darkest nights are in winter (in the southern hemisphere it is the other way around). In Dezember a night in Moscow lasts almost 17 hours.

December Solstice (Winter Solstice) is on Tuesday, December 21, 2021 at 6:59 pm in Moscow. In terms of daylight, this day is 10 hours, 33 minutes shorter than on June Solstice. In most locations north of Equator, the shortest day of the year is around this date.

The longest day of the year is 17:17 long and the shortest day is 6:42 long. The longest day is 10:35 longer than the shortest day. There is an average of 1693 hours of sunlight per year (of a possible 4383) with an average of 4:38 of sunlight per day.

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Russia contains three main climates, forming a sandwich of climates: the southwest of Asian Russia, continuing all the way to Europe, has a humid continental climate. The Far North is arctic tundra, and everything in between is subarctic.

Although the daytime length at the Equator remains 12 hours in all seasons, the duration at all other latitudes varies with the seasons. During the winter, daytime lasts shorter than 12 hours; during the summer, it lasts longer than 12 hours.

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The precision of geographic coordinates varies based on how they are formatted and regularly see coordinates in DMS with just the degrees without a decimal or minutes after them. The degrees are only precise to about 111 km so the coordinates are basically worthless.

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Any circle drawn around the Earth divides it into two equal halves called hemispheres. There are generally considered to be four hemispheres: Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western.

The International Date Line, established in 1884, passes through the mid-Pacific Ocean and roughly follows a 180 degrees longitude north-south line on the Earth. It is located halfway round the world from the prime meridian—the zero degrees longitude established in Greenwich, England, in 1852.

one of Earth’s 24 divisions distinct by one hour, roughly 15 degrees of longitude. area of the Earth west of the prime meridian and east of the International Date Line.

The 12 Major Meridians

• Lung Meridian. The lung meridian controls how energy is consumed and impacts the respiratory system.
• Large Intestine Meridian.
• Stomach Meridian.
• Heart Meridian.
• Small Intestine Meridian.
• Bladder Meridian.
• Kidney Meridian.
• Pericardium Meridian.

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