Because of the earth’s tilt, areas above the Arctic Circle receive 24 hours of sunlight each summer, but 24 hours of darkness each winter. The intensity of solar radiation is much lower in the Arctic than in temperate or tropical regions because of the low elevation of the sun in the sky.

They enjoy light from other sources. People expect polar nights to be complete darkness, but the locals often say that it’s brighter than you expect. After this Winter Solstice, however, the light returns rapidly to Greenland, and becomes slightly brighter every day until the days of the midnight sun.

The midnight sun is a beloved summer phenomenon, that provides warmth, life and joy in the lives of the Greenlanders – and for everybody else north of the Polar Circle. 24 hours of sun a day means that the boundary between day and night is marvelously blurred in some hectic, beautiful summer months.

76 days of midnight sun between May and July greets travelers in Northern Norway. The further north you go, the more nights of midnight sun you get. During the summer months, you can experience up to 24 hours of sunlight above the Arctic Circle, which means more time to enjoy the sights and make new discoveries.

Every year, the longest night in the world is celebrated in Ushuaia on June 21, when the city gets decked out and sleeping is forbidden. Even though celebrations started before, it was not until 1986 that the festival went national and, ever since, it has been held for three days: from June 20 thru 22.

Yellowknife gets about 20 hours of sun light, with no real darkness. To many of us this is nothing new, nothing different, nothing out of the ordinary. Because although Yellowknife is in the land of the midnight sun and we market that, we don’t actually have a midnight sun.

Yellowknife is a small isolated city and as a result it does not share the level of crime associated with larger centres. Violent crime is nearly unheard of here, however petty crime is a minor problem in the downtown core, especially in the Gold Range Hotel area which is frequented by loiterers.

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The association suggests the average price of a home in the Northwest Territories rose from $296,817 in February 2020 to $439,591 in just one year.

In Yellowknife, the summers are comfortable and partly cloudy and the winters are frigid, snowy, windy, and mostly cloudy. Over the course of the year, the temperature typically varies from -21°F to 71°F and is rarely below -41°F or above 79°F.

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Cost of living in Yellowknife (Northwest Territories) According to the CMHC, a bachelor apartment is $1182 per month and a one-bedroom apartment is $1451 per month …

Time Zone in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada

DST changes do not necessarily occur on the same date every year….Daylight Saving Time in Other Years.

Yellowknife, Northwest Territories Time Zone.

The Yukon has now permanently moved to what was previously considered its Daylight Savings arrangement. The territory did not “fall back” in November and the time today is the same in both the Yukon and NWT. (In the summer, the NWT will be an hour ahead.)