Norway

South Pole

On December 21, there are 24 hours of daylight south of the Antarctic Circle (66.5° south of the equator) and 24 hours of darkness north of the Arctic Circle (66.5° north of the equator).

Locations below the Antarctic Circle (66.5 degrees south latitude) experience 24 hours of darkness. During the northern hemisphere summer solstice, the area “above” the Arctic Circle — above 66.5 degrees north) — receives 24 hours of daylight, while the south polar region is in total darkness.

Every point on Earth within 23.5 of the North Pole experiences 24 hours of daylight and every point south of the Antarctica Circle (latitude 66.5S) experiences 24 hours of darkness on the first day of summer. Winter begins in the Northern Hemisphere on or about December 21.

You must be surprised to know this but it is true. So let’s know about this city. The town is the Hammerfest in Norway, where it is midnight. Here the sun hides at 12:43 in the night and rises at an interval of just forty minutes and the birds start chirping at around one and a half at night.

22 December

The shortest day of the year lasts 7 hours 49 minutes and 42 seconds. The length of day during this time is 8 hours, 48 minutes and 38 seconds shorter than the summer solstice. The actual moment of the solstice in 2020 will occur around 10.02am in the UK, but most people focus on the entire day.

During the months of September and October we are constantly losing roughly 2 minutes per day as we near the Autumnal Equinox which we receive “equal” amount of daylight and darkness.

Antarctica has six months of daylight in its summer and six months of darkness in its winter.

Daylight hours will get longer everyday until the summer solstice (longest day of the year) – the next one being on June 21 2021 in the Northern Hemisphere. The mornings started getting brighter at the beginning of January, rather than on the solstice itself.

The shortest day of the year, in terms of daylight, is December 21, the winter solstice. But the days will actually begin to feel a bit longer two weeks before the solstice. That’s because the earliest sunset of the year happens before the solstice, and in 2021, it occurs on Tuesday, December 7.

Time is flying quicker this year as the earth is spinning around faster than it has in half-a-century. The year 2020 included 28 shortest days since 1960 and 2021 is predicted to be even shorter. …

When will the days get longer? The days get longer by an average of 2 minutes and 7 seconds every day after 21 December. It won’t be until around 18 January that an extra hour of daylight will come, and every 28 days (four weeks) thereafter, an hour or so of sunshine should lighten the days.

At the December solstice, the Northern Hemisphere is leaning most away from the sun for the year. For us on the northern part of Earth, the shortest day comes at the solstice. After the winter solstice, the days get longer, and the nights shorter.

Between now and July 4, Washington loses five minutes of daylight. A month from now, we’ll have 24 fewer minutes of daylight. And by Aug. 21, the sun will spend one hour and 26 minutes less time above the horizon.

On June 21, 2021, the Northern hemisphere will experience its longest day of the year, known as summer solstice, or the first day of summer. Summer Solstice is also referred to as Midsummer, First Day of Summer, June solstice (in the Northern Hemisphere) and the longest day of the year.

After the June solstice, the sun follows a lower and lower path through the sky each day in the Northern Hemisphere until it reaches the point where the length of daylight is about 12 hours and eight to nine minutes in areas that are about 30 degrees north or south of the equator.