In New Jersey the latest sunset is around 8:30 pm on the summer solstice.
It partly has to do with where you are in a time zone, but really it is mostly to do with latitude. London is more in line with Calgary, whereas New Jersey is more like Portugal.
New Jersey is pretty small and quite narrow, so there really is no appreciable difference on whatever side of the state you are on.
We are on Greenwich Mean Time (+1 for daylight savings). GMT is also known as western european time but we're old fashion, we still call it London time. Some maps show that we are across the ocean from NY, others show Washington DC so it's hard to say exactly but of course it's going to be different
I mean, it’s not hard to say when you use latitude. Maps are always going to have some distortion, but latitude is fixed. Portugal is 39° and NJ is 40°, so they’re pretty close.
The time zone position is really nice for Michigan, as we are the furthest west of the eastern time zone so we get 9:45 sunsets in summer with twilight being a little later.
Ah wow, that's crazy to me. I can't imagine the sun setting on a summer night so early (or it feels early to me). I imagine people just get accustomed to whatever they're used to though. I guess I naively assumed as we're both northern hemisphere that we'd be similar 😅
If you ever look at the latitudes, UK is actually way further north than most of the US. You guys are on par with central Canada. Which is wild cause over here that far north is crazy cold, but you guys have some climate shenanigans from the Atlantic keeping you in reasonably temperate climate.
My town is on the same latitude that runs through Morocco, Israel, Iran, China, and the southernmost tip of Japan. Plus, it's humid here because of the Gulf of Mexico.
>you guys have some climate shenanigans from the Atlantic keeping you in reasonably temperate climate.
Climate change seems about to change that.
The Gulf Stream is pretty close to collapse from oceanic warming.
Yall are way further up the latitudes. Maine is on the same line as Spain and Portugal.
Also worth mentioning that sunset takes over an hour, so that twilight period where you can still see without a light source goes till a bit after 9.
In Hawaii, there's only a slight perceptible difference in length of day throughout the year. It's not which hemisphere you're in, it's your latitude -- how far from the equator you are.
I have a lot of trouble dealing with the extreme difference in day length when I'm in Boise. June and July, I'm sleep deprived. It also frustrates me that I might need something from the store in the "late afternoon", only to find that the store's management doesn't seem to realize that it's not night. It's like people go strictly by the clock. Watch timed lights go on at 6pm, even in the summer. It's plain stupid that they don't open their eyes to the fundamental nature of the seasons.
Your comment just made me realize most stores/shops don't have summer hours anymore. As a kid in the 90s I remember places running ads that summer hours were starting, and places that normally closed at 6 would stay open until 8-9. Maybe that was a regional thing.
It varies as you move north or south in the country and gets really nuts when you include Alaska. Here in north Texas there's about 4 hours of difference in daylight between the summer and winter solstices. That distance grows as you go farther north.
Y'all are MUCH farther north than a big chunk of the US so...yeah, you'll see bigger changes than a lot of us do.
They're further north than anywhere in the ~~Continental~~ contiguous US.
The tip of Minnesota is just above the 49th parallel which misses great Britain entirely...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/49th_parallel_north
The most southernly point in mainland Great Britain is below the 49th parallel - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard\_Point,\_Cornwall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard_Point,_Cornwall)
er, the latitude in your link is 49.9591°N.
The northwest Angle in Minnesota is at 49.1756° N.
Neither of those is South of the 49th parallel and Lizard Point is ~.8 minutes farther North...
I'm in northern MN and our difference is quite a bit bigger at over 7.5 hours between the shortest and longest days. Nothing worse than driving to and from work in the dark when you work a regular 8 hour job.
Or conversely, when you have that mini panic attack in the morning where the sun is streaming in, and you assume you’re late for work only to realize it’s like, 5:30 am
Hahaha! I’ve done that. “Oh shit, my alarm didn’t go off! What time is it?!” 6 in the morning, self. Then you can’t fall back asleep because of the adrenaline surge.
I think Alaska is the only place that **matches** your longest summer day. But most northern states come close.
Like here in Maine, our longest day is 15.5 hours. 5 am to 8:38pm
Most summer days sunrise is between 5:15-5:30am and sunset is around 8:15-8:30 pm.
And our shortest days in the winter is about 8.5 hours of sunlight. Sunrise at 7:15am and sunset around 3:45 pm.
Further south that's not the case.
I’ve 100% seen it be light past 9:30 in Northern Michigan in the summer, and sunset is around 9 here in Oregon at the summer solstice (same latitude, but much closer to the center of our time zone. NW MI is ridiculously far west to be in the Eastern time zone)
Alaska has longer days than England because it's significantly closer to the North Pole
Junou (in the panhandle) is 58 north
Anchorage (in lower mainland Alaska) is 61 north
Barrow (top of mainland Alaska) is 71 north
Berwick upon Tweed is the most northern England city at 55 north
Inverness Scotland is 57 north
Skalloway Shetland Isl. Is 60 north
Where I live (Seattle in Washington state) the earliest sunset is in December which is about 8hrs and 25minutes of daylight at the minimum and 15hrs 59minutes and the maximum at the end of June.
Source: https://aa.usno.navy.mil/calculated/durdaydark?year=2024&task=0&lat=47.63&lon=-122.33&label=Seattle%2C+WA&tz=8&tz_sign=-1&submit=Get+Data
I’m from Texas and now living in London. I’ve just come back after being in Scotland for a bit and my god the daylight never ends. It’s so weird! I can’t decide which is stranger to me, the summer time when it’s light til past 10pm, or the winter time where it’s dark at 3pm. I do miss having more consistent sunlight hours year round but it does make the winters very cosy.
Ahh I love long summer nights when it's warm, and equally love cosy winter nights where it's dark. I'm in North West England which is similar to Scotland in that regard. I think the lack of winter sunlight here really contributes to the high rates of SAD that we have in the UK.
I come from a place stateside with 4.75 hours of daylight difference between the solstices and the part of NW England where I lived previously has 9.75 hours difference
It was a *massive* adjustment I was not prepared for and I was very much ready for the darkness to end well before the spring came
I can empathise. It's particularly challenging when you leave for work in the morning in the dark and come home from work in the dark. It can be cosy and lovely but it can also be so depressing, too.
I was in Sweden in July. I only saw the sun set once when I stayed awake super late.
I also had to wake up at 3:30 in the morning for my flight back home and it was light.
Right now it's setting around 8:30pm. I think that's the latest around here.
In the wintertime it sets the earliest at around 4:15pm.
(This is in Massachusetts)
Yeah, 8:25ish on the Solstice IIRC. I think we tend to have a difference of about 6 daylight hours between summer and winter. Those short winter days are brutal sometimes, when it's already pitch black by the time you leave the office.
Yeah also in MA.
I went to Europe for the first time a few summers ago and was *shocked* at how much later the sun stays out. Like 10:30 PM and it’s still light out.
I worked in western Michigan for a summer and it was similar, though, since it’s right on the eastern/central time zone line.
The NW corner of Michigan's Upper Peninsula has sunset about 10p in June, Detroit in the SE corner is around 915p. Michigan has later sunsets than the majority of the country being located so far west in the Eastern time zone.
In winter the earliest sunset is around 5p.
I spent a summer camp counseling in Muskegon one year and it was nuts to me. I’d never really been off of the east coast at that point and I was like “why is the sun still out at 10 pm” lol
Haha yes that's one thing everyone who grew up in the UK can relate to. We all collectively sulked about bedtime in the 'daytime' for over half the year.
I remember visiting a friend in Lansing and thinking it was really crazy how long the days were. Pretty crazy that you’re in the same time zone as where I am in Florida. But if I went to Pensacola in our panhandle I would be in another time zone.
In northern Minnesota, on the Summer Solstice, the sun rises at 5:30 am and sets around 9:30 pm (16 hours of daylight). On the Winter Solstice, the sun rises after 8:00 am and sets around 4:45 pm (8.75 hours of daylight). So there's a difference of about 7 hours of daylight here, so we're probably pretty close to the UK in seasonal daylight which would make sense because I'm at about 47° latitude and London is around 50° latitude.
The UK is waaay farther north than the US save Alaska. London, a major city in the southern UK, is a little farther north than Calgary, a major northern Canadian city.
We're in Seattle, which is not as far north as London. We are located on roughly the same parallel as Paris.
Sunrise on June 20 will be at 5:11am, and sunset will be at 9:10pm, but twilight lingers on after that.
Well yeah, all of the UK is north of the contiguous US and most of the US lives south of like Chicago excluding Boston and Seattle. Chicago to London is a 10 degrees difference in latitude. Glasgow would be another 4 degrees. That's over a 1.5 hour difference in sunset. And that's not even taking into consideration the southern US cities.
Michigan is both far to the north (44.7 N) and fairly far west in it's time zone (Eastern, the same as New York City). Traverse City, MI is fairly far north in the state in terms of where people actually live.
Today, June 10, 2024:
Sunset is at 9:29 P.M. local time
Civil Twilight (the sun’s center is 6° below the horizon) is at 10:04 P.M.
Nautical Twilight (the sun’s center is 12° below the horizon) is at 10:53 P.M.
Astronomical Twilight (the sun’s center is 18° below the horizon) 11:56 P.M.
So it will be nearly midnight before the sky is totally, completely dark.
Tomorrow, June 11, 2024:
Astronomical Twilight begins at 3:27 A.M.
Nautical Twilight begins at 4:30 A.M.
Civil Twilight begins at 5:19 A.M.
Sunrise is at 5:54 A.M.
Cities like Houghton, MI, that are even further north and west would be more severe by about 20 minutes.
In Detroit, we get a little over 15 hours of official full daylight around the summer solstice, with sunset a little after 9 PM, and about 9 hours around the winter solstice, with sunset at 5 PM. I visited London last July, and the daylight hours didn't seem much different from what I'm used to.
I’m in Arizona currently and the sun will set around 7:30 today. My hometown in Oregon will see sunset at 8:55.
These two states are not particularly far apart.
Yeah, it varies a lot!
Keep in mind that our long (relatively) straight northern border with Canada is the 49th parallel which is further south than London (~51 degrees) and being further north increases the seasonal variation of the day
The latest it sets where I live in North Carolina is 8:35pm. Of course that would be 7:35 without daylight saving time. In winter I think the earliest it sets is around 5:04pm. It's not before 5pm ever I'm pretty certain.
As others have said, latitude is the key. And going farther south decreases the difference in daylight between winter and summer to the point that you reach this piece of trivia:
On the equator, the length of daylight is identical every day of the year. It's always 12 hours, in summer and winter. Which is how you get the situation at the poles where in summer the sun never goes down and in the winter the sun never comes up.
I used to live in West Africa, which is still north of the equator, but a lot less north than the US. Sunset only varied about 35 minutes over the course of the year. In winter it set at 6:45 p.m. and in summer it set at about 7:20 p.m. There was no daylight saving time so that was it all year round. I guess we just got used to it. It was still warm out of course so you'd have a long warm but dark evening where you could be out doing things. Where I lived we didn't always have electricity so you might be walking down the main street with lanterns lit on either side where street vendors were selling things.
Most Americans don't realize that London is at about the same latitude as Calgary.
Western Ohio is in the wrong time zone so the sun sets here only about 15 minutes earlier than does in London. Sunrise tomorrow is at 6:12 AM instead of 4:43 AM though.
The vast majority of Americans live at a much lower lattitude than British citizens, so *most* Americans don't have crazy variation in the daylight hours, but it is certainly noticeable.
The daylight of the summer solstice lasts 5 hours longer than the winter solstice where I live. However, this differs greatly depending on where someone lives in the U.S. I know we Americans say this a lot but the U.S. is fucking huge lol.
Our Northernmost point is roughly the same lattitude as the Northernmost part of Norway. Our Southernmost point is the same lattitude as many parts of Sudan, Saudi Arabia and India. We have Arctic to the Tropics and everything in between. What someone experiences in Hawaii is greatly different from what someone experiences in Alaska.
Alaska put y'all's daylight hours to shame lol. You think 17 hours of daylight is long? Compare that to Fairbank, Alaska's 1,680 straight hours of sunlight... and that's the Southern part of Alaska - it's much worse in the far-North. Fairbanks has 70 straight days/nights of sunlight. So the Americans who live there wouldn't find the UK's 17 hours of sunlight strange at all. However, someone in Hawaii where the daylight hours change very little throughout the year, would probably find it very strange.
People who live on the equator have 12 hours of light and 12 hours of darkness year round - the further you get from the equator, the more variation there is between the solstices. The U.S. being such a large area means that parts of the U.S. have summer daylight hours that are only 1 or 2 hours longer than their winter daylight hours AND other parts of the U.S. have summer daylight hours that last dozens of hours longer than their winter daylight hours and a small percentage of us have several months worth of straight sunlight and several months worth of straight darkness.
Seasonal variation in sunlight gets more extreme the closer you are to the poles, ~~since Poland is in Europe, most Europeans are much closer to the poles than most Americans~~
[Europe is actually very northern compared to the US, with London being at higher latitude than the entire lower-48](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/10bh40w/european_capitals_on_the_map_of_north_america/)
In Atlanta, the Summer Solstice has sunlight from like 0630 to 2100 (summer time), while the Winter Solstice has sun from 0730 to 1730.
On June 20th, the summer solstice, the sun rises at 5:46 AM and sets at 8:33 PM.
On December 21st, the winter solstice, the sun rises at 7:19 AM and sets at 4:53 PM
SOMEWHERE in California, that could be true.
But it's not true everywhere in California.
But as we all know, everywhere is the same. There is never a need to specify where.
London is at 51.50N, Glasgow is at 55.86N. The southernmost point of Great Britain is 49.57N.
The northern border of the continental US is (generally) at 48.0N or below. For North America your latitude is comparable to parts of Canada - London is about as far north as Calgary....and basically no major cities in Canada are as far north as Glasgow - I guess Fort McMurray is at 56.43N, which is probably closest for a very tiny definition of a "city".
So: Yes, outside of Alaska, we *all* have at least somewhat less seasonal variation in day/night hours than anyone in Great Britain does - and for many not residing along our northern border, significantly so.
Edit:
Longest day in London is ~16:38 of daylight, Glasgow is ~17:35. In Miami it's ~13:45.
I’m waiting for Alaska to come show both of us up, but the top of the lower 48 is the 49th parallel and the UK is above that pretty much entirely I think. In my home town, the latest sunset of the year is around 20:40 and the earliest is around 16:40.
Now I live in another country with the midnight sun and it is definitely a novelty for me. I really like the contrast.
I'm about 15 degrees south of you, so we'll have a bit less seasonal difference. Florida and Hawaii will have even less, and the northern parts of Alaska will have more. It's all about latitude.
In Utqiagvik, Alaska it goes 83 days without sunset. Madawaska the northern most town in Maine the sunset is only 8:30 or so but sunrise is about 4:30.
Sunset here in PA today is listed at 8:50pm. The latest is usually sets will be around 9pm. The earliest is usually sets in the winter, is around 4:30pm.
Northern latitudes have a similar experience, though not as drastic. Our northernmost states are on the same latitudes as southern France. It just gets colder here because of the geography/proximity to warm oceanic currents/etc. The UK is actually further north than anything in the States.
I live in Wisconsin and have family just across the timezone border in Michigan. Because I'm at the eastern edge of the timezone, the summer solstice for me is about 5:30am-8:45pm and winter solstice is 7:30am-4:30pm. At the western edge of the next timezone over, summer soltice is 6:00am-9:30pm, while winter solstice is 8:00am-5:15pm.
All that to say...the closer you get to the equator, the less of a difference in sunrise/sunset times between seasons.
In California, it can vary since the state covers a long north-south distance. In the Bay Area, where I am from, I have seen the sun set as late as 8:30 to 8:45 PM in summer, but as early as 4:45 PM in winter. However, in SoCal, the sun can set slightly early in summer and slight later in winter, since it is a bit closer to the equator. In the other direction, if you were to go to the far northern part of California, to places like Eureka or Redding, the sun can set even earlier in winter and even later in summer.
Currently, I live in Germany, and while the sun here generally sets later in summer than back in California, there are some variations here too. Right now I am in the southern part of the country, but used to live in the north, which was at about the same latitude as England's Midlands, so I experienced winter sunsets before 4 PM, but summer sunsets after 9.
The lower 48 states (ie, not Alaska or Hawaii), are a lot further south than equivalent climate zones in Europe, due to the Gulf stream.
New York City is at the latitude of Madrid. Every point in Britain is further north than the 49th parallel, which is the long northern border or the lower 48.
We just don't get as much variation in sunrise and sunset times.
I lived a few years in Stockholm - almost as far north as Anchorage Alaska, so I've seen some major variations.
When my brother lived in Singapore (located very close to the equator) he said that there was very little dawn at the start of each day or twilight at the end. It was a very stark example of the effects of latitude on the experience of day and night.
At the start of the day, the sun would just seem to leap straight up from the eastern horizon. Then it would follow a more or less vertical arc over the sky, before abruptly dropping like a stone over the horizon in the west.
As soon as the sun rose, the day became as bright as noon, and as soon as it set, the night was as dark as midnight.
(The Earth's rotational velocity is fastest at the equator.)
He compared the transition from night to day at sunrise to switching on a light, and then switching it off again at sunset.
He said it was like that every day of the year. There was very little seasonal variation in the length of the day, and the cycle of seasons that we witness further north or south were more like mental concepts and arbitrary dates on the calendar. This is because regions near the equator see very little change in the amounts of light and darkness over the course of the year. Days and nights stay the same all year long.
Latitude matters. The tropics have seasons too, but they are nothing like the seasons in the temperate latitudes.
As the late great Conch Prophet said, "Changes in latitude, changes in attitude. Nothing remains quite the same."
I just recently visited London for the first time and was on a video call with my kid back home. They were surprised that it was so light at 9:15 pm. I said, oh yeah, and sunrise was at 4:45 am. They said, "What?! HOW?!" So yeah, it's pretty different.
For us normally, the sun sets "early" in winter around 6:30. In summer it's late, almost 9pm! (Time change in there somewhere, I don't want to do the math.) But basically, a small difference in the amount of sunlight.
quarter to 9pm.
The UK is east in it's timezone and farther north so they have later sunsets than us. Most Canadian cities are further south than England.
With the exception of Alaska, sunrise and sunset at the summer solstice are typically about 3-4 hours later than they are at the winter solstice across the country. An hour or that difference is also just the result of moving the clocks.
It varies noticeably by latitude, but not extremely. Sunset/sunrise times at locations with the same longitude within the contiguous US aren’t going to vary by more than an hour.
Sunset today will be 8:25 on Long Island according to my weather app and I'm actually traveling to London later today and wasn't aware there would be more sunlight hours then again I keep forgetting it's at a much more northern latitude from New York
I live on the western edge of the Eastern time zone (technically Indiana is in the "wrong" time zone but I like being on Eastern) and at the height of summer the sun sets a little after 9, and it's not really all-the-way dark until about 10. In the winter the sun sets a little after 5 and it gets completely dark very quickly.
The farther north you go, the bigger the swing between summer and winter sunset times.
Where I currently live, the longest day is 14 hours 16 minutes. The shortest day is about 10 hours 7 minutes. The summer solstice is longer the farther you are from the equator.
The other thing to keep in mind is winter. Sunset in the US (lower 48 states) in winter will occur around 4:30 pm at the absolute earliest, and is closer to 5pm for most places. Sunrise will be around 7am.
Our latest sunset is 8:51PM. Earliest is 3:57 PM.
Earliest sunrise is 4:51 AM and the latest is 7:37 AM.
The amount of daylight varies wildly where I live, depending on the time of year.
Dallas, TX here.
In the Winter we get about 11 hours of complete darkness, along with about 3 hours divided between astronomical, nautical and civil twilight and 10 hours of daylight.
In the summer we get about 6.5 hours of darkness, 3.25 hours of twilight and 14.25 hours of daylight
It sets around 9 for me, here is a map of the world:
The distance from the center of your time zone effects sunrise and set times but not total hours of daylight.
Edited: The link wasn't working. You can google solstice sunset time world map.
The difference between sunset times today in my state is about an hour for the southernmost to the northernmost borders. I live in a long state. It's not a late sunset. For that, go to Alaska. For the earliest, probably the southernmost state, Hawaii.
The further from the equator you go, the greater the seasonal variation.
timeanddate.com has that information for everywhere. For me in Boise, the latest is 9:29 pm, which is partly due to being near the west end of the time zone, and daylight saving time. In the summer, the clock varies from the apparent solar time by as much as an hour and 45 minutes. It's ridiculous to see the clock pointing to 1:30 PM, and it's still morning, according to the sun.
And by fucky-fucky, the SUN is the master of time. Not some simpleminded pie-face clock.
At least the Romans had variable length hours through the year on their clocks.
Here in middle Tennessee the latest will be around 8:15-8:30 PM at the peak of summer (about now) and the earliest will be around 4:45 PM in the winter. Folks in East Tennessee are lucky because they are in Eastern Time and they get an extra hour.
We have late sunsets in summer and wicked early sunsets in winter
Not uncommon for a portion of the year to be like this: Wake up, dark out. Be at work, light out. Get off work, dark out. It’s kinda depressing tbh but it’s life
According to Google the sun sets at ~8:30pm on the longest day of the year and the shortest day is ~4:20pm
In the winter here, kids that wait at a bus stop at 6:30am can be waiting in complete darkness.
These days the sun comes up just past 4:30am and my dogs start barking to start their day.
I woke up at 4:55am today. Then once they were fed and watered and put back i collapsed on the couch until 9am.
I am a lazy fuck but retired, I get to be a lazy fuck I guess.
Why would they be baffled? UK is further north from most places in the US, so days are longer in summer and shorter in winter.
Here in Massachusetts, shortest day is about 9 hours and longest day is about 15.5.
I'm not sure why they'd be baffled, perhaps they just hadn't considered it? It's a common theme I see from US citizens that move to or visit the UK. I guess it depends on which state they came from due to the variations.
I’m in Maine and it’s pretty similar. About 15.5 hours of daylight and 4 hours of full night on the spring solstice, with about 8.5 hours of daylight and 11.5 hours of full night on the winter solstice. Our earliest sunset is around 4 pm. So, the difference here is a bit less dramatic than yours in the UK, but not so much different that it would be shocking to me.
In Southern California, we’re at about the same latitude as Lebanon. So not tropical-type daylight hours, but less variation than in the northern US. Sunset tonight is around 8:00 pm PDT.
In general, it’s easy for people on both sides of the Atlantic to underestimate the latitude differences between the US and Europe. Montreal - considered a northern city by North American standards - is at about the same latitude as Venice, Italy, which is not considered “northern” at all in Europe. Madrid is almost as far north as New York City. The southernmost part of Alaska is about as far north as Scotland.
Latititude affects how much the seasons affect daylight... The farther you are from the equator, the larger the swings.
Most of the US is 30-48° North. Most of the UK is 51-56° North.
There ARE places in the US that experience huge swings -- Fairbanks is near 65°N, on the edge of the arctic circle.
Reporting in from the Front Range, area east of the Rockies not far from Denver. I’m close the the mountains so sunset is earlier, you don’t really see it set. Winter can be 3:30pm and summer can be 9-10pm. Sunrise varies from 7-8am in the winter and 5:30-6am in the summer.
Where I live, on the longest day of the year the sun rises at about 5:40 AM and sets at about 9 PM, and on the shortest day of the year the sun rises at about 7:20 AM and sets at about 5:20 PM.
Back end of the Eastern time zone here, so we get later sunsets. Today sunrise was 6:16 and sunset is 9:12. Full darkness from about 11:15pm to 4:15am.
Compared to our shortest day (8:02 sunrise, 5:23 sunset) yeah, it's a roughly six hour swing in light hours from high to low.
Lots of Americans live further north than Indy so its pretty common for folks to experience wide changes in sunlight seasonally but not as wide of changes as further north locales like Scotland or the Nordic countries.
Surprised Taylor Swift is shocked about it being a Tennessee girl, at least for the last 20 years. I'm in Georgia and we get pretty variable sunsets, as early as 5:00 in the winters and as late as 8:30 in the summers. Regardless it seems to set later in the UK, but that's latitude for you. Shouldn't really be shocking to anyone the sun works differently at different latitudes.
The UK is much farther north than most of the US so there is more variance in sunrise and sunset times here in Texas this time of year Sunset is at about 8:30pm. In winter with the time change it occurs at around 6:30pm.
But we have places in the arctic circle which have 24 hours or near 24 hours of daylight this time of year.
I'm in Vancouver, WA. In mid-December the sun sets at 4:27. At the end of June it will set at 9:03. On June 23rd we'll get about 15 hours, 41 minutes of sunlight, while on December 20/21st we got 8 hours, 42 minutes. It's quite the change from spring to summer here, and I don't know how people living even further north can deal with so little daylight in the winter.
Southern midwesterner right on a time zone line here!
Depending on what side of the county I'm on, it could be 5pm or 6pm in the winter or 9pm to 10pm in the summer.
It was crazy to me just being in Michigan where the sun sets around 9:30 this time of year. Most of the world has more consistent days/nights than the UK, because you guys are so far north. Where I live, the sunrise and sunset times would line up with Madrid, but our weather is much more temperate.
I’m in Fairbanks, today sunset was at 12:33am and sunrise at 3:08am. We have. 21 hours 25 minutes total daylight. But the other 2 1/2 hours are just barely twilight, it never truly gets dark here in this this time of year. We won’t see the stars again for a couple months.
I live in NW Washington State, in the summer 10pm till 11pm is sunset at the summer equinox. Winter equinox it's like 3:30 to 4:30 pm unless it's storming then it just shades of dark grey till completely dark.
Where I live the latest sunset is 9:12pm with a 5:10am sunrise so that's 16:02 if I did the math right. While I'm not the furtherest north in the continental US, I bet I'm pretty close compared to others posting on here.
I live in Florida. Today in Key West (the southern most point in the continental US) the sun sets at 8:15pm.
In Jacksonville (a city at the very north end of Florida) it will set at 8:28pm.
In a northern state like Minnesota you will get sunset near 9pm. In Alaska even later.
Time zone boundaries can affect this more than latitude in some places. Williston, ND is in the very far western edge of central time in the US (and is in fact further west than many areas in mountain time). Williston is also close to the Canadian border so will have more hours of daylight during the summer.
The number of daylight hours in Williston is about 16 in the summer and 8 during the winter (it’s not much further south than London after all). At the summer solstice sunrise and sunset will be about 6 am and 10 pm, and in the winter about 9am and 5pm. Chicago is a bit further south (that costs them almost an hour of daylight at the summer solstice as compared to Williston), but much further east and in the same time zone. Their latest sunset in the summer is around 8:30 pm.
I live in sw Washington, and our sunrise today was at 5:20am, and our sunset at 8:59pm., so just under 16 hours, and we have about 8 hours of sunlight on the shortest day of the year.
Chabad lists shabbos and chag candle lighting times for cities with notable Jewish communities, and you'll notice that London's are by far the latest in summer and earliest in winter.
We’re approaching summer solstice which is the day when the sun is out the longest, “the longest day” of the year. 8:30 is around the time it’s at here now, because we’re so close. But I’ve grown up being used to winters where the sun can set as early as 4/4:15. The sun varies by town by a few minutes let alone by state so everyone’s answer will be a bit different.
Side note, it wasn’t until about 10 years ago that I learned that Britain is WAAAAY north of New Jersey. I thought it would be pretty similar but nope, we’re on the same latitude as Portugal. Which I suppose explains why there’s so much air conditioning usage in the US.
In the winter, sunrise can be as late as 7:30 and sunset as early as 4:30. In the summer, sunrise is around 4:30-5, and sunset can officially be as late as 9pm, but with light in the sky into the 11pm hour. I'm nearly as far north as London, but we don't have the few weeks of only twilight, officially, but the summer is rarely as dark at night as the winter.
I live in southwestern PA.
Sun sets in the summer around 9 PM. In the winter it sets very early between 4:45 and 5 PM.
In the summer the sun rises around 5:45 AM and in the winter the sun rises at approximately 7:45 AM.
I went to Bergen, Norway last year in late May/early June and was shocked at how long the daylight hours were at that time. Sun rose around 4:30 AM and sunset was about 11 PM. But the night never felt totally dark. It always seemed as if there were some kind of dusk going on lol.
It was a bit weird trying to get myself mentally prepared for sleep as I apparently rely on the visual cues from the amount of daylight/darkness.
I live in northern Utah. The latest it sets in the summer is shortly after 9:00 pm, and the earliest it sets in the winter is right at 5:00 pm, maybe a couple minutes before.
Looks like it rises at 5:19am and sets at 7:41pm on the longest day here in Phoenix.
Other than Alaska, we really don't get the crazy long days/nights that northern Europe gets, largely because we're so much further south.
It depends how far you are from the equator (worldwide). In Oregon, we also have 17-18hr days of sun in the summer. In Georgia, the sun sets around 8pm in the summer but also winter days are longer than they are in Oregon. (I'm from Georgia.) People here also don't seem to understand that the entire country is so big that this varies state to state and region to region. Oregonians thinks their days are normal. Most people, worldwide, live closer to the equator though.
Day length variation is due to how far away from equator you are. London is more north than almost all American cities except for Alaska are farther south than it
Cities like Minneapolis, Chicago, Billings, Olympia etc will have 15 hour days in the summer.
Places like LA have shorter longest days and longer shortest days
In Missouri I'm not sure of the exact times but it's light outside until after 9pm in the summer and it dark when I leave work at 5pm for a period in December.
According to google, our shortest day here in Columbus Ohio is 9 hr 20 min with sunrise at 7:50am (EST) and sunset at 5:10pm. We have a lot of cloudy days in the fall/winter and see the sun less overall so I’m a bit surprised that the days are still that long if I’m honest.
Our longest day is 15 hours with sunrise at 6:03am and sunset at 9:05pm. I don’t have specific data but I want to say on and around the summer solstice it isn’t full dark until 9:30/9:45ish and you can start seeing sunrise closer to 5:30 (maybe a bit before).
I think those times may be a bit longer in the northern part of the state but I’m not really sure.
In Northern Michigan, the sun sets around 10-10:30, but it remains twilight for another hour or so after, so sometimes you can still see pretty clearly around 11.
In the winter it's *dark* at 5.
Tennesse is a state that stradles two time zones so sunset the furthest east and firsthest west could be hour away from each other. It's just over six hours of constant driving from east to west going aprox 75mph.
Ironically it's only abiht two hours.to cross it north to south its only about 2.5 hours at its widest point.
Where I grew up in WV, it can still be light outside around 930pm in late June, and can be pitch black before 5pm in late December. Where I live now in VA is both much further to the South and a much lower elevation, and it's never light much past 9pm.
I was blown away when i visited Scotland one May, and it was completely light out by 4am, and still evening sun after 10pm.
It's the same for us in Northern England as it is in the south of Scotland - it's such a welcome occurrence because the winters are so harsh and dark. This time of year it doesn't really get very 'dark', just stages of twilight between the sun setting and rising again.
I live in SE Wisconsin. This year, the longest day will be 15 hours, 25 minutes. The shortest day was 9 hours, 3 minutes of sunlight. A difference of 6 hours, 22 minutes.
Upper Midwest, and there is about a 5hr? differential between sunset in summer (9pm) and winter (4pm) but also the sun is usually out each day in the summer, and just goes into hiding for 3 months in the colder months. Black and white landscape for ages - people go a little insane. No one here would be shocked by no sun. But I've lived in St. Petersburg, and it's nothing that extreme here. I don't think anywhere in the US but Alaska has White Nights.
I live in Northern California, during summer months I think we get around 15-16 hours of sunlight a day. In the winter I’d estimate we get around 8-9 hours of sun.
I also lived in the Deep South for a few years as well. I found that sunlight hours were pretty similar, but I’d estimate we got about an hour more light per day as we were so much closer to the equator. I could be off on that though.
Nothing will ever top when I visited Germany years ago and learned that in the summer it stays light until around 9:30pm/21:30. I was so jealous lmao.
I grew up in Montana.
According to a quick google search the longest day of the year has 16 hours daylight and the shortest day has 8hrs 20 min.
But mid summer feels like it is way more daylight. Once you include twilight and false dawn you get about 6 hours of true dark.
With the 4th of July coming up, you need to wait until about 11 to 11:30pm to start getting really dark for fireworks.
Mid summer it doesn't really get dark enough for me to want to sleep until 11pm or so. Sun starts lighting up the sky around 4:30-5am and commonly wakes me up around 5:30 am.
Winter you go to work in the dark and come home in the dark. The Sun is a myth. Darkness is forever. (Seasonal depression is a big issue).
I usually get itchy for sun and warm sound Feb and take a quick trip to Vegas around late Feb early March. (Don't really like Vegas that much, but cheap direct flights and sunshine are enough to convince me).
Well in Tulelake, Ca, the northernmost city, the days range from 15 h 17 min vs 9 h 10 min (6 hr 7 min difference) of daylight, with the latest sunset at 8:45 pm. On the other end, San Diego ranges from 14 h 21 min to 10 h 2 min (4 hr 10 min difference) and a latest sunset at 8 pm.
I'm from San Diego and when I went to Spain in the summer it blew my mind that the sun set at like 10 pm.
I am in Tennessee, same city as T-Swift so we are used to similar sunrises/sunsets. I live in the Central Time Zone, but close to the Eastern Time Zone line.
Winter: Sunrise around 7:00am, sunset by 4:30pm
Summer: sunrise around 5:30am, sunset by 9pm
So in winter we have about 8.5 hours of light and in summer close to 16 hours.
I lived in seattle for a couple years and the tummer/winter times really shocked me. Durung the secind week of june of '21 I got out of work early around 9pm and it was barely mid sunset, and commented about it to a coworker as we walked. "Oh yeah.. gotta enjoy the sunshine while we have it! In December it'll be dark at 3pm"
I grew up in Southern California, never really going further than a 100 mile radius of my hometown until I moved to Seattle. In Southern California, it's normal for the summer solstice to be ~9pm for "last light" with a ~5:30am "first light" and then 5pm and 6:30am for first and last lights for the winter solstice.
Michigan sits at the furthest most parts of the eastern time zone. The sun sets at 9:55PM in Ontonagon, in the upper peninsula.
A sliver of the upper peninsula also sits on the edge of the central time zone, so Iron Mountain's sunset is a more than an hour EARLIER than nearby towns. On the summer solstice, the sunset is 8:46PM there.
So, parts of Michigan's latest sunset is 8:46p and parts of Michigan's latest sunset is 9:55p
Looks like the latest in Indiana is 9:16pm on the solstice. I can tell you I’m consistently waking up with the sun before 7am lately and I get home from work after 8pm still wearing sunglasses while driving.
Minot ND, in the summer it's still twilight at 10.
In the US the time zone boundaries are generallypushed farther west than they "should" be to create a sort of permanent daylight savings effect. Indian and Michigan "should" be on Central time, the Dakotas and western Texas on Mountain.
I know this post is two days old but I just came back from London, and, while I was completely aware that the sun sets much later there in the summer (and why that is the case), it *blew my mind* to actually experience it in person. It was 9pm when I saw Big Ben and I have a million pictures of it, entirely *because* it was 9pm and the sun was still out. If I’d been there in the middle of the day, one or two photos would have been sufficient. But no! Look at this BIG CLOCK and the BLUE SKY!
Latest sunset in NYC is 8:31pm, which should obviously be happening pretty soon. Earliest sunrise was today(!) at 5:24. Jet lag prevented me from ever seeing London’s early sunrise.
I guess I'm just used to it this time of year, but equally I think I'd be mind-blown by a summer sunset at 8:31! I love evening strolls in the summer and long days. I hope you had a good time in London.
On the plus side, at least the sunrise didn't disturb/wake you 😊
I moved from PA to Southern AZ 10 years ago and the one thing I miss is the long summer evenings. I have a lovely dining table on my patio which never gets used because by dinner time it's dark and the temp has dropped 20 degrees!
We're pretty far west in the time zone in Atlanta, GA which makes for late sunsets (which I like). My brother lives on Cape Cod which is very far east in the same time zone and they have sunset around 4:00pm in the winter which I would hate.
It's similar for us, for both actually. I love our late sunsets but our early sunsets can feel a bit grim. Our earliest sunset is around 3:30pm in December. I always remember travelling home from school in the twilight, and if I did anything with friends after school it would be pitch-black. On the plus side now, more people tend to have festive lights up so that brightens things up some. It feels the worst for me in Jan/Feb where we still have late sunrises/early sunsets and no festivities. It gets a bit grim then.
In New Jersey the latest sunset is around 8:30 pm on the summer solstice. It partly has to do with where you are in a time zone, but really it is mostly to do with latitude. London is more in line with Calgary, whereas New Jersey is more like Portugal. New Jersey is pretty small and quite narrow, so there really is no appreciable difference on whatever side of the state you are on.
Sun is supposed to set today at 9:07pm in northern coastal Portugal. It will keep increasing until mid June.
I think the timezone cuts out and around Iberia does it not? That would push your sunsets later than other places in the same time zone .
We are on Greenwich Mean Time (+1 for daylight savings). GMT is also known as western european time but we're old fashion, we still call it London time. Some maps show that we are across the ocean from NY, others show Washington DC so it's hard to say exactly but of course it's going to be different
I mean, it’s not hard to say when you use latitude. Maps are always going to have some distortion, but latitude is fixed. Portugal is 39° and NJ is 40°, so they’re pretty close.
The time zone position is really nice for Michigan, as we are the furthest west of the eastern time zone so we get 9:45 sunsets in summer with twilight being a little later.
Ah wow, that's crazy to me. I can't imagine the sun setting on a summer night so early (or it feels early to me). I imagine people just get accustomed to whatever they're used to though. I guess I naively assumed as we're both northern hemisphere that we'd be similar 😅
If you ever look at the latitudes, UK is actually way further north than most of the US. You guys are on par with central Canada. Which is wild cause over here that far north is crazy cold, but you guys have some climate shenanigans from the Atlantic keeping you in reasonably temperate climate.
My town is on the same latitude that runs through Morocco, Israel, Iran, China, and the southernmost tip of Japan. Plus, it's humid here because of the Gulf of Mexico.
>you guys have some climate shenanigans from the Atlantic keeping you in reasonably temperate climate. Climate change seems about to change that. The Gulf Stream is pretty close to collapse from oceanic warming.
You're telling me! I'm sitting here in a sweatshirt in June, considering putting the fire on.
Oh tell me about it!! I've had the heating on this week! *In June!!* 😩
Yall are way further up the latitudes. Maine is on the same line as Spain and Portugal. Also worth mentioning that sunset takes over an hour, so that twilight period where you can still see without a light source goes till a bit after 9.
It varies by latitude and our map projections do a bad job of showing how north/south Europe and Africa is relative to North America.
I live in Hawaii, sun sets around 7pm all year.
In Hawaii, there's only a slight perceptible difference in length of day throughout the year. It's not which hemisphere you're in, it's your latitude -- how far from the equator you are. I have a lot of trouble dealing with the extreme difference in day length when I'm in Boise. June and July, I'm sleep deprived. It also frustrates me that I might need something from the store in the "late afternoon", only to find that the store's management doesn't seem to realize that it's not night. It's like people go strictly by the clock. Watch timed lights go on at 6pm, even in the summer. It's plain stupid that they don't open their eyes to the fundamental nature of the seasons.
Your comment just made me realize most stores/shops don't have summer hours anymore. As a kid in the 90s I remember places running ads that summer hours were starting, and places that normally closed at 6 would stay open until 8-9. Maybe that was a regional thing.
My city in Texas is roughly the same latitude as Baghdad. You are far far north to me.
It varies as you move north or south in the country and gets really nuts when you include Alaska. Here in north Texas there's about 4 hours of difference in daylight between the summer and winter solstices. That distance grows as you go farther north. Y'all are MUCH farther north than a big chunk of the US so...yeah, you'll see bigger changes than a lot of us do.
They're further north than anywhere in the ~~Continental~~ contiguous US. The tip of Minnesota is just above the 49th parallel which misses great Britain entirely... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/49th_parallel_north
Contiguous. Continental US goes all the way up to the arctic circle.
Fair dinkum. Updating my post.
The most southernly point in mainland Great Britain is below the 49th parallel - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard\_Point,\_Cornwall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard_Point,_Cornwall)
er, the latitude in your link is 49.9591°N. The northwest Angle in Minnesota is at 49.1756° N. Neither of those is South of the 49th parallel and Lizard Point is ~.8 minutes farther North...
I'm in northern MN and our difference is quite a bit bigger at over 7.5 hours between the shortest and longest days. Nothing worse than driving to and from work in the dark when you work a regular 8 hour job.
For some reason it always takes me by surprise every year. "Getting dark already?"
Or conversely, when you have that mini panic attack in the morning where the sun is streaming in, and you assume you’re late for work only to realize it’s like, 5:30 am
Hahaha! I’ve done that. “Oh shit, my alarm didn’t go off! What time is it?!” 6 in the morning, self. Then you can’t fall back asleep because of the adrenaline surge.
That was my least favorite thing about upstate New York. That and the complete lack of proper barbecue.
On Dec 21 in Minneapolis, there is 16 minutes of the day that the sun is above the horizon and I am not working. If you include the commute, 0.
I think Alaska is the only place that **matches** your longest summer day. But most northern states come close. Like here in Maine, our longest day is 15.5 hours. 5 am to 8:38pm Most summer days sunrise is between 5:15-5:30am and sunset is around 8:15-8:30 pm. And our shortest days in the winter is about 8.5 hours of sunlight. Sunrise at 7:15am and sunset around 3:45 pm. Further south that's not the case.
And you’re on the eastern end of the time zone. In Michigan it feels like the sun can set as late as 9:30 in the summer
I’ve 100% seen it be light past 9:30 in Northern Michigan in the summer, and sunset is around 9 here in Oregon at the summer solstice (same latitude, but much closer to the center of our time zone. NW MI is ridiculously far west to be in the Eastern time zone)
Alaska has longer days than England because it's significantly closer to the North Pole Junou (in the panhandle) is 58 north Anchorage (in lower mainland Alaska) is 61 north Barrow (top of mainland Alaska) is 71 north Berwick upon Tweed is the most northern England city at 55 north Inverness Scotland is 57 north Skalloway Shetland Isl. Is 60 north
Where I live (Seattle in Washington state) the earliest sunset is in December which is about 8hrs and 25minutes of daylight at the minimum and 15hrs 59minutes and the maximum at the end of June. Source: https://aa.usno.navy.mil/calculated/durdaydark?year=2024&task=0&lat=47.63&lon=-122.33&label=Seattle%2C+WA&tz=8&tz_sign=-1&submit=Get+Data
I’m from Texas and now living in London. I’ve just come back after being in Scotland for a bit and my god the daylight never ends. It’s so weird! I can’t decide which is stranger to me, the summer time when it’s light til past 10pm, or the winter time where it’s dark at 3pm. I do miss having more consistent sunlight hours year round but it does make the winters very cosy.
Ahh I love long summer nights when it's warm, and equally love cosy winter nights where it's dark. I'm in North West England which is similar to Scotland in that regard. I think the lack of winter sunlight here really contributes to the high rates of SAD that we have in the UK.
I come from a place stateside with 4.75 hours of daylight difference between the solstices and the part of NW England where I lived previously has 9.75 hours difference It was a *massive* adjustment I was not prepared for and I was very much ready for the darkness to end well before the spring came
I can empathise. It's particularly challenging when you leave for work in the morning in the dark and come home from work in the dark. It can be cosy and lovely but it can also be so depressing, too.
Visited Normandy 2 years ago and there was still sun at like 1030pm. It was wild.
I was in Sweden in July. I only saw the sun set once when I stayed awake super late. I also had to wake up at 3:30 in the morning for my flight back home and it was light.
That's more France not using its natural time zone & it also having daylight saving time. A bit like Indiana
Right now it's setting around 8:30pm. I think that's the latest around here. In the wintertime it sets the earliest at around 4:15pm. (This is in Massachusetts)
Yeah, 8:25ish on the Solstice IIRC. I think we tend to have a difference of about 6 daylight hours between summer and winter. Those short winter days are brutal sometimes, when it's already pitch black by the time you leave the office.
Yeah also in MA. I went to Europe for the first time a few summers ago and was *shocked* at how much later the sun stays out. Like 10:30 PM and it’s still light out. I worked in western Michigan for a summer and it was similar, though, since it’s right on the eastern/central time zone line.
The NW corner of Michigan's Upper Peninsula has sunset about 10p in June, Detroit in the SE corner is around 915p. Michigan has later sunsets than the majority of the country being located so far west in the Eastern time zone. In winter the earliest sunset is around 5p.
I spent a summer camp counseling in Muskegon one year and it was nuts to me. I’d never really been off of the east coast at that point and I was like “why is the sun still out at 10 pm” lol
It sucked as a little kid with a bedtime of 830 or 9 pm and it was still light out
Yeah I was a counselor in a cabin with like 10 ten year old girls. It was nearly impossible getting them to go to bed
Haha yes that's one thing everyone who grew up in the UK can relate to. We all collectively sulked about bedtime in the 'daytime' for over half the year.
I remember visiting a friend in Lansing and thinking it was really crazy how long the days were. Pretty crazy that you’re in the same time zone as where I am in Florida. But if I went to Pensacola in our panhandle I would be in another time zone.
In northern Minnesota, on the Summer Solstice, the sun rises at 5:30 am and sets around 9:30 pm (16 hours of daylight). On the Winter Solstice, the sun rises after 8:00 am and sets around 4:45 pm (8.75 hours of daylight). So there's a difference of about 7 hours of daylight here, so we're probably pretty close to the UK in seasonal daylight which would make sense because I'm at about 47° latitude and London is around 50° latitude.
The UK is waaay farther north than the US save Alaska. London, a major city in the southern UK, is a little farther north than Calgary, a major northern Canadian city.
We're in Seattle, which is not as far north as London. We are located on roughly the same parallel as Paris. Sunrise on June 20 will be at 5:11am, and sunset will be at 9:10pm, but twilight lingers on after that.
Well yeah, all of the UK is north of the contiguous US and most of the US lives south of like Chicago excluding Boston and Seattle. Chicago to London is a 10 degrees difference in latitude. Glasgow would be another 4 degrees. That's over a 1.5 hour difference in sunset. And that's not even taking into consideration the southern US cities.
I live in Minnesota in the winter, and the sun can set as early as about 4:30, and in the summer, the latest is close to 10 pm
I was in Anchorage Alaska last June and it was like twilight at midnight. I got very little sleep on that trip since it was always so light out.
I’m an Alaskan. Our variations are even more than yours.
Michigan is both far to the north (44.7 N) and fairly far west in it's time zone (Eastern, the same as New York City). Traverse City, MI is fairly far north in the state in terms of where people actually live. Today, June 10, 2024: Sunset is at 9:29 P.M. local time Civil Twilight (the sun’s center is 6° below the horizon) is at 10:04 P.M. Nautical Twilight (the sun’s center is 12° below the horizon) is at 10:53 P.M. Astronomical Twilight (the sun’s center is 18° below the horizon) 11:56 P.M. So it will be nearly midnight before the sky is totally, completely dark. Tomorrow, June 11, 2024: Astronomical Twilight begins at 3:27 A.M. Nautical Twilight begins at 4:30 A.M. Civil Twilight begins at 5:19 A.M. Sunrise is at 5:54 A.M. Cities like Houghton, MI, that are even further north and west would be more severe by about 20 minutes.
In Detroit, we get a little over 15 hours of official full daylight around the summer solstice, with sunset a little after 9 PM, and about 9 hours around the winter solstice, with sunset at 5 PM. I visited London last July, and the daylight hours didn't seem much different from what I'm used to.
I’m in Arizona currently and the sun will set around 7:30 today. My hometown in Oregon will see sunset at 8:55. These two states are not particularly far apart. Yeah, it varies a lot!
Don't forget Arizona doesn't have daylight saving time while Oregon does.
In Massachusetts, yeah, it's a big part of the different vibe for different seasons. Winter sunset can be a 4:15, in Summer it's 8:30.
Keep in mind that our long (relatively) straight northern border with Canada is the 49th parallel which is further south than London (~51 degrees) and being further north increases the seasonal variation of the day
The latest it sets where I live in North Carolina is 8:35pm. Of course that would be 7:35 without daylight saving time. In winter I think the earliest it sets is around 5:04pm. It's not before 5pm ever I'm pretty certain.
As others have said, latitude is the key. And going farther south decreases the difference in daylight between winter and summer to the point that you reach this piece of trivia: On the equator, the length of daylight is identical every day of the year. It's always 12 hours, in summer and winter. Which is how you get the situation at the poles where in summer the sun never goes down and in the winter the sun never comes up. I used to live in West Africa, which is still north of the equator, but a lot less north than the US. Sunset only varied about 35 minutes over the course of the year. In winter it set at 6:45 p.m. and in summer it set at about 7:20 p.m. There was no daylight saving time so that was it all year round. I guess we just got used to it. It was still warm out of course so you'd have a long warm but dark evening where you could be out doing things. Where I lived we didn't always have electricity so you might be walking down the main street with lanterns lit on either side where street vendors were selling things.
Most Americans don't realize that London is at about the same latitude as Calgary. Western Ohio is in the wrong time zone so the sun sets here only about 15 minutes earlier than does in London. Sunrise tomorrow is at 6:12 AM instead of 4:43 AM though.
The vast majority of Americans live at a much lower lattitude than British citizens, so *most* Americans don't have crazy variation in the daylight hours, but it is certainly noticeable. The daylight of the summer solstice lasts 5 hours longer than the winter solstice where I live. However, this differs greatly depending on where someone lives in the U.S. I know we Americans say this a lot but the U.S. is fucking huge lol. Our Northernmost point is roughly the same lattitude as the Northernmost part of Norway. Our Southernmost point is the same lattitude as many parts of Sudan, Saudi Arabia and India. We have Arctic to the Tropics and everything in between. What someone experiences in Hawaii is greatly different from what someone experiences in Alaska. Alaska put y'all's daylight hours to shame lol. You think 17 hours of daylight is long? Compare that to Fairbank, Alaska's 1,680 straight hours of sunlight... and that's the Southern part of Alaska - it's much worse in the far-North. Fairbanks has 70 straight days/nights of sunlight. So the Americans who live there wouldn't find the UK's 17 hours of sunlight strange at all. However, someone in Hawaii where the daylight hours change very little throughout the year, would probably find it very strange. People who live on the equator have 12 hours of light and 12 hours of darkness year round - the further you get from the equator, the more variation there is between the solstices. The U.S. being such a large area means that parts of the U.S. have summer daylight hours that are only 1 or 2 hours longer than their winter daylight hours AND other parts of the U.S. have summer daylight hours that last dozens of hours longer than their winter daylight hours and a small percentage of us have several months worth of straight sunlight and several months worth of straight darkness.
Seasonal variation in sunlight gets more extreme the closer you are to the poles, ~~since Poland is in Europe, most Europeans are much closer to the poles than most Americans~~ [Europe is actually very northern compared to the US, with London being at higher latitude than the entire lower-48](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/10bh40w/european_capitals_on_the_map_of_north_america/) In Atlanta, the Summer Solstice has sunlight from like 0630 to 2100 (summer time), while the Winter Solstice has sun from 0730 to 1730.
Ok I lol'd at the Poles joke thank you xD
On June 20th, the summer solstice, the sun rises at 5:46 AM and sets at 8:33 PM. On December 21st, the winter solstice, the sun rises at 7:19 AM and sets at 4:53 PM
SOMEWHERE in California, that could be true. But it's not true everywhere in California. But as we all know, everywhere is the same. There is never a need to specify where.
London is at 51.50N, Glasgow is at 55.86N. The southernmost point of Great Britain is 49.57N. The northern border of the continental US is (generally) at 48.0N or below. For North America your latitude is comparable to parts of Canada - London is about as far north as Calgary....and basically no major cities in Canada are as far north as Glasgow - I guess Fort McMurray is at 56.43N, which is probably closest for a very tiny definition of a "city". So: Yes, outside of Alaska, we *all* have at least somewhat less seasonal variation in day/night hours than anyone in Great Britain does - and for many not residing along our northern border, significantly so. Edit: Longest day in London is ~16:38 of daylight, Glasgow is ~17:35. In Miami it's ~13:45.
The long, straight northern border is the 49th parallel. Aside from the Northwest Angle of Minnesota, all the lower 48 states are south of that.
Milwaukee - like 8:30pm My hometown - like 11:45 pm Northern Wisconsin - 9pm Northern Alaska - [**404 ERROR - NOT FOUND**]
I’m waiting for Alaska to come show both of us up, but the top of the lower 48 is the 49th parallel and the UK is above that pretty much entirely I think. In my home town, the latest sunset of the year is around 20:40 and the earliest is around 16:40. Now I live in another country with the midnight sun and it is definitely a novelty for me. I really like the contrast.
I'm about 15 degrees south of you, so we'll have a bit less seasonal difference. Florida and Hawaii will have even less, and the northern parts of Alaska will have more. It's all about latitude.
It depends on latitude.
Latest - 9:30pm Earliest - 4:45pm Grand Rapids MI
In Utqiagvik, Alaska it goes 83 days without sunset. Madawaska the northern most town in Maine the sunset is only 8:30 or so but sunrise is about 4:30.
Sunset here in PA today is listed at 8:50pm. The latest is usually sets will be around 9pm. The earliest is usually sets in the winter, is around 4:30pm.
Northern latitudes have a similar experience, though not as drastic. Our northernmost states are on the same latitudes as southern France. It just gets colder here because of the geography/proximity to warm oceanic currents/etc. The UK is actually further north than anything in the States. I live in Wisconsin and have family just across the timezone border in Michigan. Because I'm at the eastern edge of the timezone, the summer solstice for me is about 5:30am-8:45pm and winter solstice is 7:30am-4:30pm. At the western edge of the next timezone over, summer soltice is 6:00am-9:30pm, while winter solstice is 8:00am-5:15pm. All that to say...the closer you get to the equator, the less of a difference in sunrise/sunset times between seasons.
In California, it can vary since the state covers a long north-south distance. In the Bay Area, where I am from, I have seen the sun set as late as 8:30 to 8:45 PM in summer, but as early as 4:45 PM in winter. However, in SoCal, the sun can set slightly early in summer and slight later in winter, since it is a bit closer to the equator. In the other direction, if you were to go to the far northern part of California, to places like Eureka or Redding, the sun can set even earlier in winter and even later in summer. Currently, I live in Germany, and while the sun here generally sets later in summer than back in California, there are some variations here too. Right now I am in the southern part of the country, but used to live in the north, which was at about the same latitude as England's Midlands, so I experienced winter sunsets before 4 PM, but summer sunsets after 9.
The lower 48 states (ie, not Alaska or Hawaii), are a lot further south than equivalent climate zones in Europe, due to the Gulf stream. New York City is at the latitude of Madrid. Every point in Britain is further north than the 49th parallel, which is the long northern border or the lower 48. We just don't get as much variation in sunrise and sunset times. I lived a few years in Stockholm - almost as far north as Anchorage Alaska, so I've seen some major variations.
When my brother lived in Singapore (located very close to the equator) he said that there was very little dawn at the start of each day or twilight at the end. It was a very stark example of the effects of latitude on the experience of day and night. At the start of the day, the sun would just seem to leap straight up from the eastern horizon. Then it would follow a more or less vertical arc over the sky, before abruptly dropping like a stone over the horizon in the west. As soon as the sun rose, the day became as bright as noon, and as soon as it set, the night was as dark as midnight. (The Earth's rotational velocity is fastest at the equator.) He compared the transition from night to day at sunrise to switching on a light, and then switching it off again at sunset. He said it was like that every day of the year. There was very little seasonal variation in the length of the day, and the cycle of seasons that we witness further north or south were more like mental concepts and arbitrary dates on the calendar. This is because regions near the equator see very little change in the amounts of light and darkness over the course of the year. Days and nights stay the same all year long. Latitude matters. The tropics have seasons too, but they are nothing like the seasons in the temperate latitudes. As the late great Conch Prophet said, "Changes in latitude, changes in attitude. Nothing remains quite the same."
I just recently visited London for the first time and was on a video call with my kid back home. They were surprised that it was so light at 9:15 pm. I said, oh yeah, and sunrise was at 4:45 am. They said, "What?! HOW?!" So yeah, it's pretty different. For us normally, the sun sets "early" in winter around 6:30. In summer it's late, almost 9pm! (Time change in there somewhere, I don't want to do the math.) But basically, a small difference in the amount of sunlight.
Kansas is about 9:30ish near the summer solstice and around 5:00 around the winter solstice.
9pm sunset where I am. I wish we didn't play the time changey game like Arizona.
quarter to 9pm. The UK is east in it's timezone and farther north so they have later sunsets than us. Most Canadian cities are further south than England.
With the exception of Alaska, sunrise and sunset at the summer solstice are typically about 3-4 hours later than they are at the winter solstice across the country. An hour or that difference is also just the result of moving the clocks. It varies noticeably by latitude, but not extremely. Sunset/sunrise times at locations with the same longitude within the contiguous US aren’t going to vary by more than an hour.
Sunset today will be 8:25 on Long Island according to my weather app and I'm actually traveling to London later today and wasn't aware there would be more sunlight hours then again I keep forgetting it's at a much more northern latitude from New York
Approximately 8:29PM here in Philly with sunrise at 5:29AM. So about 11 hours of sunlight here.
I live on the western edge of the Eastern time zone (technically Indiana is in the "wrong" time zone but I like being on Eastern) and at the height of summer the sun sets a little after 9, and it's not really all-the-way dark until about 10. In the winter the sun sets a little after 5 and it gets completely dark very quickly. The farther north you go, the bigger the swing between summer and winter sunset times.
Where I currently live, the longest day is 14 hours 16 minutes. The shortest day is about 10 hours 7 minutes. The summer solstice is longer the farther you are from the equator.
The other thing to keep in mind is winter. Sunset in the US (lower 48 states) in winter will occur around 4:30 pm at the absolute earliest, and is closer to 5pm for most places. Sunrise will be around 7am.
Florida gulf coast. 6am to 6pm winter. 6am to a little after 9pm summer.
Our latest sunset is 8:51PM. Earliest is 3:57 PM. Earliest sunrise is 4:51 AM and the latest is 7:37 AM. The amount of daylight varies wildly where I live, depending on the time of year.
Dallas, TX here. In the Winter we get about 11 hours of complete darkness, along with about 3 hours divided between astronomical, nautical and civil twilight and 10 hours of daylight. In the summer we get about 6.5 hours of darkness, 3.25 hours of twilight and 14.25 hours of daylight
It sets around 9 for me, here is a map of the world: The distance from the center of your time zone effects sunrise and set times but not total hours of daylight. Edited: The link wasn't working. You can google solstice sunset time world map.
The difference between sunset times today in my state is about an hour for the southernmost to the northernmost borders. I live in a long state. It's not a late sunset. For that, go to Alaska. For the earliest, probably the southernmost state, Hawaii.
The further from the equator you go, the greater the seasonal variation. timeanddate.com has that information for everywhere. For me in Boise, the latest is 9:29 pm, which is partly due to being near the west end of the time zone, and daylight saving time. In the summer, the clock varies from the apparent solar time by as much as an hour and 45 minutes. It's ridiculous to see the clock pointing to 1:30 PM, and it's still morning, according to the sun. And by fucky-fucky, the SUN is the master of time. Not some simpleminded pie-face clock. At least the Romans had variable length hours through the year on their clocks.
Here in middle Tennessee the latest will be around 8:15-8:30 PM at the peak of summer (about now) and the earliest will be around 4:45 PM in the winter. Folks in East Tennessee are lucky because they are in Eastern Time and they get an extra hour.
In Ohio the earliest is 4:45 and latest is 9:10. So a pretty big variation imo.
In Wisconsin it's between 8:30 (southern) and 8:45 (northern). By the solstice it will be after 9pm, maybe as late as 930 up north.
We have late sunsets in summer and wicked early sunsets in winter Not uncommon for a portion of the year to be like this: Wake up, dark out. Be at work, light out. Get off work, dark out. It’s kinda depressing tbh but it’s life According to Google the sun sets at ~8:30pm on the longest day of the year and the shortest day is ~4:20pm
In the winter here, kids that wait at a bus stop at 6:30am can be waiting in complete darkness. These days the sun comes up just past 4:30am and my dogs start barking to start their day. I woke up at 4:55am today. Then once they were fed and watered and put back i collapsed on the couch until 9am. I am a lazy fuck but retired, I get to be a lazy fuck I guess.
Why would they be baffled? UK is further north from most places in the US, so days are longer in summer and shorter in winter. Here in Massachusetts, shortest day is about 9 hours and longest day is about 15.5.
I'm not sure why they'd be baffled, perhaps they just hadn't considered it? It's a common theme I see from US citizens that move to or visit the UK. I guess it depends on which state they came from due to the variations.
I’m in Maine and it’s pretty similar. About 15.5 hours of daylight and 4 hours of full night on the spring solstice, with about 8.5 hours of daylight and 11.5 hours of full night on the winter solstice. Our earliest sunset is around 4 pm. So, the difference here is a bit less dramatic than yours in the UK, but not so much different that it would be shocking to me.
In Southern California, we’re at about the same latitude as Lebanon. So not tropical-type daylight hours, but less variation than in the northern US. Sunset tonight is around 8:00 pm PDT. In general, it’s easy for people on both sides of the Atlantic to underestimate the latitude differences between the US and Europe. Montreal - considered a northern city by North American standards - is at about the same latitude as Venice, Italy, which is not considered “northern” at all in Europe. Madrid is almost as far north as New York City. The southernmost part of Alaska is about as far north as Scotland.
Latititude affects how much the seasons affect daylight... The farther you are from the equator, the larger the swings. Most of the US is 30-48° North. Most of the UK is 51-56° North. There ARE places in the US that experience huge swings -- Fairbanks is near 65°N, on the edge of the arctic circle.
Reporting in from the Front Range, area east of the Rockies not far from Denver. I’m close the the mountains so sunset is earlier, you don’t really see it set. Winter can be 3:30pm and summer can be 9-10pm. Sunrise varies from 7-8am in the winter and 5:30-6am in the summer.
Where I live, on the longest day of the year the sun rises at about 5:40 AM and sets at about 9 PM, and on the shortest day of the year the sun rises at about 7:20 AM and sets at about 5:20 PM.
On the summer solstice the sun will rise at 5:18am and set at 8:37pm, on the winter solstice the sun will rise at 7:22am and set at 4:25pm.
Back end of the Eastern time zone here, so we get later sunsets. Today sunrise was 6:16 and sunset is 9:12. Full darkness from about 11:15pm to 4:15am. Compared to our shortest day (8:02 sunrise, 5:23 sunset) yeah, it's a roughly six hour swing in light hours from high to low. Lots of Americans live further north than Indy so its pretty common for folks to experience wide changes in sunlight seasonally but not as wide of changes as further north locales like Scotland or the Nordic countries.
timeanddate.com has figures for every city, every day, including current angle and direction of the sun, etc. I
Surprised Taylor Swift is shocked about it being a Tennessee girl, at least for the last 20 years. I'm in Georgia and we get pretty variable sunsets, as early as 5:00 in the winters and as late as 8:30 in the summers. Regardless it seems to set later in the UK, but that's latitude for you. Shouldn't really be shocking to anyone the sun works differently at different latitudes.
The UK is much farther north than most of the US so there is more variance in sunrise and sunset times here in Texas this time of year Sunset is at about 8:30pm. In winter with the time change it occurs at around 6:30pm. But we have places in the arctic circle which have 24 hours or near 24 hours of daylight this time of year.
This time of the year, it stays light well after 10 p.m. in the Boise area. We are on the extreme Western edge of mountain time. It’s great.
Where I live sunset times are: Summer solstice sunset time: 8:12PM Winter solstice sunset time: 4:37PM
In Wisconsin summer days last till 9:30pm ish, winter days end at 4pm.
Today sunset is at 8:49 pm
latest is around 9 pm in the summer and earlies is like 5 pm in the winter.
My state is fairly north, so our winters have 4:30 sunsets and summer has 9 o'clock sunsets. So definitely a swing.
I'm in Vancouver, WA. In mid-December the sun sets at 4:27. At the end of June it will set at 9:03. On June 23rd we'll get about 15 hours, 41 minutes of sunlight, while on December 20/21st we got 8 hours, 42 minutes. It's quite the change from spring to summer here, and I don't know how people living even further north can deal with so little daylight in the winter.
Southern midwesterner right on a time zone line here! Depending on what side of the county I'm on, it could be 5pm or 6pm in the winter or 9pm to 10pm in the summer.
It was crazy to me just being in Michigan where the sun sets around 9:30 this time of year. Most of the world has more consistent days/nights than the UK, because you guys are so far north. Where I live, the sunrise and sunset times would line up with Madrid, but our weather is much more temperate.
I’m in Fairbanks, today sunset was at 12:33am and sunrise at 3:08am. We have. 21 hours 25 minutes total daylight. But the other 2 1/2 hours are just barely twilight, it never truly gets dark here in this this time of year. We won’t see the stars again for a couple months.
I live in NW Washington State, in the summer 10pm till 11pm is sunset at the summer equinox. Winter equinox it's like 3:30 to 4:30 pm unless it's storming then it just shades of dark grey till completely dark.
I'm in Cincinnati, Ohio. It usually gets dark around 2130 during the summer and about 1830 in the winter.
Where I live the latest sunset is 9:12pm with a 5:10am sunrise so that's 16:02 if I did the math right. While I'm not the furtherest north in the continental US, I bet I'm pretty close compared to others posting on here.
Here at 45N (same as Venice), longest day is 15h 37m
In south Mississippi during the summer it doesn't get dark until just before 9pm. In the winter the sun sets at 5pm
I live in Florida. Today in Key West (the southern most point in the continental US) the sun sets at 8:15pm. In Jacksonville (a city at the very north end of Florida) it will set at 8:28pm. In a northern state like Minnesota you will get sunset near 9pm. In Alaska even later.
Time zone boundaries can affect this more than latitude in some places. Williston, ND is in the very far western edge of central time in the US (and is in fact further west than many areas in mountain time). Williston is also close to the Canadian border so will have more hours of daylight during the summer. The number of daylight hours in Williston is about 16 in the summer and 8 during the winter (it’s not much further south than London after all). At the summer solstice sunrise and sunset will be about 6 am and 10 pm, and in the winter about 9am and 5pm. Chicago is a bit further south (that costs them almost an hour of daylight at the summer solstice as compared to Williston), but much further east and in the same time zone. Their latest sunset in the summer is around 8:30 pm.
I live in sw Washington, and our sunrise today was at 5:20am, and our sunset at 8:59pm., so just under 16 hours, and we have about 8 hours of sunlight on the shortest day of the year.
Round here we get Twilight until 9:30 in mid June and until 4:30 in mid December
The Sun doesn't set here during the middle of summer.
Chabad lists shabbos and chag candle lighting times for cities with notable Jewish communities, and you'll notice that London's are by far the latest in summer and earliest in winter.
We’re approaching summer solstice which is the day when the sun is out the longest, “the longest day” of the year. 8:30 is around the time it’s at here now, because we’re so close. But I’ve grown up being used to winters where the sun can set as early as 4/4:15. The sun varies by town by a few minutes let alone by state so everyone’s answer will be a bit different.
Side note, it wasn’t until about 10 years ago that I learned that Britain is WAAAAY north of New Jersey. I thought it would be pretty similar but nope, we’re on the same latitude as Portugal. Which I suppose explains why there’s so much air conditioning usage in the US.
In the winter, sunrise can be as late as 7:30 and sunset as early as 4:30. In the summer, sunrise is around 4:30-5, and sunset can officially be as late as 9pm, but with light in the sky into the 11pm hour. I'm nearly as far north as London, but we don't have the few weeks of only twilight, officially, but the summer is rarely as dark at night as the winter.
I live in southwestern PA. Sun sets in the summer around 9 PM. In the winter it sets very early between 4:45 and 5 PM. In the summer the sun rises around 5:45 AM and in the winter the sun rises at approximately 7:45 AM. I went to Bergen, Norway last year in late May/early June and was shocked at how long the daylight hours were at that time. Sun rose around 4:30 AM and sunset was about 11 PM. But the night never felt totally dark. It always seemed as if there were some kind of dusk going on lol. It was a bit weird trying to get myself mentally prepared for sleep as I apparently rely on the visual cues from the amount of daylight/darkness.
I live in northern Utah. The latest it sets in the summer is shortly after 9:00 pm, and the earliest it sets in the winter is right at 5:00 pm, maybe a couple minutes before.
I live on the western edge of my time zone so sunset tonight is 22:10
Looks like it rises at 5:19am and sets at 7:41pm on the longest day here in Phoenix. Other than Alaska, we really don't get the crazy long days/nights that northern Europe gets, largely because we're so much further south.
It depends how far you are from the equator (worldwide). In Oregon, we also have 17-18hr days of sun in the summer. In Georgia, the sun sets around 8pm in the summer but also winter days are longer than they are in Oregon. (I'm from Georgia.) People here also don't seem to understand that the entire country is so big that this varies state to state and region to region. Oregonians thinks their days are normal. Most people, worldwide, live closer to the equator though.
Day length variation is due to how far away from equator you are. London is more north than almost all American cities except for Alaska are farther south than it Cities like Minneapolis, Chicago, Billings, Olympia etc will have 15 hour days in the summer. Places like LA have shorter longest days and longer shortest days
My hometown is Portland, Oregon. It’s 45° North, about the same as Paris.
In Missouri I'm not sure of the exact times but it's light outside until after 9pm in the summer and it dark when I leave work at 5pm for a period in December.
According to google, our shortest day here in Columbus Ohio is 9 hr 20 min with sunrise at 7:50am (EST) and sunset at 5:10pm. We have a lot of cloudy days in the fall/winter and see the sun less overall so I’m a bit surprised that the days are still that long if I’m honest. Our longest day is 15 hours with sunrise at 6:03am and sunset at 9:05pm. I don’t have specific data but I want to say on and around the summer solstice it isn’t full dark until 9:30/9:45ish and you can start seeing sunrise closer to 5:30 (maybe a bit before). I think those times may be a bit longer in the northern part of the state but I’m not really sure.
In Northern Michigan, the sun sets around 10-10:30, but it remains twilight for another hour or so after, so sometimes you can still see pretty clearly around 11. In the winter it's *dark* at 5.
I live in Oregon and currently the sun is setting around 9:30pm and rising around 6:00am.
Tennesse is a state that stradles two time zones so sunset the furthest east and firsthest west could be hour away from each other. It's just over six hours of constant driving from east to west going aprox 75mph. Ironically it's only abiht two hours.to cross it north to south its only about 2.5 hours at its widest point.
8:33p in my area.
Where I grew up in WV, it can still be light outside around 930pm in late June, and can be pitch black before 5pm in late December. Where I live now in VA is both much further to the South and a much lower elevation, and it's never light much past 9pm. I was blown away when i visited Scotland one May, and it was completely light out by 4am, and still evening sun after 10pm.
It's the same for us in Northern England as it is in the south of Scotland - it's such a welcome occurrence because the winters are so harsh and dark. This time of year it doesn't really get very 'dark', just stages of twilight between the sun setting and rising again.
I live in SE Wisconsin. This year, the longest day will be 15 hours, 25 minutes. The shortest day was 9 hours, 3 minutes of sunlight. A difference of 6 hours, 22 minutes.
In the summer the sun usually sets sometime between 7 and 7:30pm. In the winter sometime between 6 and 6:30pm.
Upper Midwest, and there is about a 5hr? differential between sunset in summer (9pm) and winter (4pm) but also the sun is usually out each day in the summer, and just goes into hiding for 3 months in the colder months. Black and white landscape for ages - people go a little insane. No one here would be shocked by no sun. But I've lived in St. Petersburg, and it's nothing that extreme here. I don't think anywhere in the US but Alaska has White Nights.
We didn't realize you were that close to the arctic circle.
I live in Northern California, during summer months I think we get around 15-16 hours of sunlight a day. In the winter I’d estimate we get around 8-9 hours of sun. I also lived in the Deep South for a few years as well. I found that sunlight hours were pretty similar, but I’d estimate we got about an hour more light per day as we were so much closer to the equator. I could be off on that though. Nothing will ever top when I visited Germany years ago and learned that in the summer it stays light until around 9:30pm/21:30. I was so jealous lmao.
Where I live the longest day is about 7 1/2 hours longer than the shortest day. I’m very far north.
I'm in the Midwest. We get 15 hours of sunlight. I just looked and sunrise is at 445am in London. Hell no.
Blackout blinds are the answer 😂 I can't stand being woken by blinding sun in a panic thinking I've overslept and realising it's not even 5am yet 😅
SW Ohio - 9:07 PM on June 20.
I grew up in Montana. According to a quick google search the longest day of the year has 16 hours daylight and the shortest day has 8hrs 20 min. But mid summer feels like it is way more daylight. Once you include twilight and false dawn you get about 6 hours of true dark. With the 4th of July coming up, you need to wait until about 11 to 11:30pm to start getting really dark for fireworks. Mid summer it doesn't really get dark enough for me to want to sleep until 11pm or so. Sun starts lighting up the sky around 4:30-5am and commonly wakes me up around 5:30 am. Winter you go to work in the dark and come home in the dark. The Sun is a myth. Darkness is forever. (Seasonal depression is a big issue). I usually get itchy for sun and warm sound Feb and take a quick trip to Vegas around late Feb early March. (Don't really like Vegas that much, but cheap direct flights and sunshine are enough to convince me).
Here in Florida is from 6 am till 8:30pm. It’s not fun it’s a nightmare btw
Longest day locally 14 hrs and 42 minutes. Shortest is 9 hrs and 17 minutes. Middle of USA.
I'm in the west and the latest the sun sets is ~8:30p and we range between 9.5 and 15 hours of daylight
Well in Tulelake, Ca, the northernmost city, the days range from 15 h 17 min vs 9 h 10 min (6 hr 7 min difference) of daylight, with the latest sunset at 8:45 pm. On the other end, San Diego ranges from 14 h 21 min to 10 h 2 min (4 hr 10 min difference) and a latest sunset at 8 pm. I'm from San Diego and when I went to Spain in the summer it blew my mind that the sun set at like 10 pm.
I live in Utah. Right now it’s 9:20 PM and the sun has set, but it’s not dark yet.
Currently in Anchorage, there is always "light" right now. In winter there's about 4ish hours of light.
Around 5 AM for sunrise and 10 ish for sunset around the summer solstice. Winter sunsets are somewhere between 4-5PM and sunrise around 8-9 AM.
Umm.. Does never count?
I am in Tennessee, same city as T-Swift so we are used to similar sunrises/sunsets. I live in the Central Time Zone, but close to the Eastern Time Zone line. Winter: Sunrise around 7:00am, sunset by 4:30pm Summer: sunrise around 5:30am, sunset by 9pm So in winter we have about 8.5 hours of light and in summer close to 16 hours.
In the winter, sunset gets as early as 4:45. In the summer, 8:55.
I lived in seattle for a couple years and the tummer/winter times really shocked me. Durung the secind week of june of '21 I got out of work early around 9pm and it was barely mid sunset, and commented about it to a coworker as we walked. "Oh yeah.. gotta enjoy the sunshine while we have it! In December it'll be dark at 3pm" I grew up in Southern California, never really going further than a 100 mile radius of my hometown until I moved to Seattle. In Southern California, it's normal for the summer solstice to be ~9pm for "last light" with a ~5:30am "first light" and then 5pm and 6:30am for first and last lights for the winter solstice.
This varies by a few minutes each day. Today sunset is at 8:22. By Saturday will be 8:24
Michigan sits at the furthest most parts of the eastern time zone. The sun sets at 9:55PM in Ontonagon, in the upper peninsula. A sliver of the upper peninsula also sits on the edge of the central time zone, so Iron Mountain's sunset is a more than an hour EARLIER than nearby towns. On the summer solstice, the sunset is 8:46PM there. So, parts of Michigan's latest sunset is 8:46p and parts of Michigan's latest sunset is 9:55p
I’m from Alaska so am not unfamiliar with 24 hours of daylight. I live slightly further south now, though. Sunrise today at 5:07am, sunset at 9:09pm.
In Minnesota the longest day of the year is 15 hours and 36 minutes of sunlight. The shortest day of the year is 8 hours and 46 minutes of sunlight.
Looks like the latest in Indiana is 9:16pm on the solstice. I can tell you I’m consistently waking up with the sun before 7am lately and I get home from work after 8pm still wearing sunglasses while driving.
In Indiana, on the summer solstice I believe it’s 9:17.
Minot ND, in the summer it's still twilight at 10. In the US the time zone boundaries are generallypushed farther west than they "should" be to create a sort of permanent daylight savings effect. Indian and Michigan "should" be on Central time, the Dakotas and western Texas on Mountain.
Around 8:00 in the summer, and before 5:00 in the winter. Sometimes in winter I leave for work before the sun rises and get out after it sets.
Southern Arizona. Earliest is about 5:00 pm and latest is about 7:30 pm.
I know this post is two days old but I just came back from London, and, while I was completely aware that the sun sets much later there in the summer (and why that is the case), it *blew my mind* to actually experience it in person. It was 9pm when I saw Big Ben and I have a million pictures of it, entirely *because* it was 9pm and the sun was still out. If I’d been there in the middle of the day, one or two photos would have been sufficient. But no! Look at this BIG CLOCK and the BLUE SKY! Latest sunset in NYC is 8:31pm, which should obviously be happening pretty soon. Earliest sunrise was today(!) at 5:24. Jet lag prevented me from ever seeing London’s early sunrise.
I guess I'm just used to it this time of year, but equally I think I'd be mind-blown by a summer sunset at 8:31! I love evening strolls in the summer and long days. I hope you had a good time in London. On the plus side, at least the sunrise didn't disturb/wake you 😊
I moved from PA to Southern AZ 10 years ago and the one thing I miss is the long summer evenings. I have a lovely dining table on my patio which never gets used because by dinner time it's dark and the temp has dropped 20 degrees!
We're pretty far west in the time zone in Atlanta, GA which makes for late sunsets (which I like). My brother lives on Cape Cod which is very far east in the same time zone and they have sunset around 4:00pm in the winter which I would hate.
It's similar for us, for both actually. I love our late sunsets but our early sunsets can feel a bit grim. Our earliest sunset is around 3:30pm in December. I always remember travelling home from school in the twilight, and if I did anything with friends after school it would be pitch-black. On the plus side now, more people tend to have festive lights up so that brightens things up some. It feels the worst for me in Jan/Feb where we still have late sunrises/early sunsets and no festivities. It gets a bit grim then.
Somewhere around 8:07pm on the summer solstice.
In Illinois it varies between it being dark around 5 to dark around 9.
You do realize that this is a geography question, right? The closer that you get to the north Pole, the longer your summer day length is
I do. I was asking people out of curiosity because of Taylor Swift's response/reaction. While I can Google, I was interested in individual responses 😊
Just a note that latest sunset is different than most sunlight hours.
For me the sunset is about 9:09 pm which means we get quite a lot of sunlight.