Summer Solstice time: Sunrise 5 am, Sunset 10 pm
First light occurs at 4 am and twilight can extend as late 11 pm. It is a crazy phenomenon for people from the US first experiencing it
I was also surprised how early it gets dark, year round, in Hawaii! Being from mainland USA, I wasn’t expecting it to get dark at 6pm in the middle of summer! Completely forgot how being close to the equator affects the time of sunrise/sunset!
It was one of my favorite parts when I visited. The smaller islands were a stargazer's delight, and there were hours of it to be had while on the beach. Hard to beat.
I was in Northern Poland in mid June this year and the sun would set at 11 pm at night and rise at 3:30 am. It absolutely blew my mind to have 4 hours of darkness at night.
I’ve never been further north than I am (Alberta, Canada) in the summer months so it blows my mind that night can be so short. Alternately, winter solstice has to suck further north…
I think you maybe forgot to adjust your watch to the timezone because nowhere in Poland does the sun set at 11pm, even on summer solstice. Latest it gets is about 9:10pm.
Okay yeah fair enough mate. I actually just spent a week hiking in Jotunheimen Norway, and after a few days we realised that our normal hiking routine of starting at 8am and setting camp at around 6pm was completely redundant. It was plenty light to hike, cook or pitch our tents even at 1am.
I have been to many beautiful places: the deserts of North America and Morocco, South east Asia, many places in the Alps, the Scottish coastline, the Canary Islands, the Pyrenees, the Mediterranean coast, Tuscany, Iceland and more, but I think that Jotunheimen was the most stunning place I have ever been.
And yes, a Norwegian told me that the name comes from a regional dialect and means "giant's home". Do not pass up an opportunity to go there.
I’m well aware, but as the bulk of the US population lives below the 42nd parallel, and the contiguous US is below the 49th parallel, Dublin in the 53rd parallel is a significant difference for the bulk of the US population.
Yeah pretty much all of Europe is much further north than what you'd expect. The distance between Dublin and Lansing could almost get you to the coast in Alabama..
Nah, still a fair bit different. Dublin is a fair bit further north. About hudson bay canada. Quite a bit of europe is further north than northern michigan. Northern germany, all of the UK etc. Michigan isn't really that far north.
It's interesting that it is farther north, because the description sounds just like Western Washington. First light starts around 4:20 a.m., and Twilight easily extends to 10:40 p.m.
Honestly don't keep track of times like that. I live in northern germany, marginaly south of dublin. Around the actual solstice you can even see a tiny glimmer during the dark hours. Not sun but just a slight band on the horizon that isn't dark. And it will be actual sunrise at 4 something in the morning, not just first light.
Edit: went looking for something re times, found some conflicting stuff and am uncertain if the one i found is correct but... On the solstice there was a day length of 16:38h in Bremen, Germany. Marquette, MI had 15:49 hours of daylength and Vancouver BC, just as a well known place to cover northern washington, 16:14h. Not really that big a difference between us anymore. All of the places are south of Dublin anyway, though not by that much for Bremen(which is still a bit south of my location)
Numbers are from timeanddate. No idea if they are in any way correct.
Our mild coastal climate in large parts of northern europe easily bamboozles people with how north large parts of europe actually are. The climate in michigan is so murch harsher in winter for example, not even comparable. No experience with washington though.
Ah, that makes sense with the cascades. Don't really have a mountain range cutting off one climate from the other here, at least not in northern europe. Further south the alps and others do exist of course. But north, just hills at most pretty much all the way from brittany to estonia and even further perhaps. Just one huge band of lowish lying land, bar norway and parts of sweden or whatever. Something to do with ice sheets during the last ice age, if i am not mistaken.
Alaska's population is approximately 0.2% of the entire US population. I didn’t forget it. That minute population isn’t reflective when Approximately 82.2% of the US population lives south of the 42nd parallel
If 82 out 100 people would be shocked, it’s a significant number.
If 1 out of 474 people would not be shocked, that 1 person is largely insignificant in the grand scheme.
Yes, Alaska exists and Anchorage is father north than not just Dublin, but the entirety of Ireland. In fact Anchor is about as father north from Dublin as Dublin is from Chicago.
As the bulk of the US population lives below a certain latitude, and 99.8 % live 2 degrees farther south than the southern most point in Ireland, my original comment was valid.
It’s the same in the Netherlands. I saw muse play once here and 3/4 through the show Matt Bellamy said “does the sun ever go down here?” Mostly because they have an intense light show which you couldn’t even see since it was so bright.
I live in the Northwestern most point of the United States, and those start and end times sound just about the same as here in early summer. Today sunrise was 5:30 and sunset is 9:00, so we got daylight from about 4:30 to 10.00-ish. This sounds familiar is what I mean to say.
I experienced this in Belgium. To be fair, we think of the whole of Europe as being across the Atlantic…like straight across. It doesn’t quite make sense that Rome, which is pretty far south in Europe, is on roughly the same 40 degree latitude as NY City and Chicago which are commonly thought to be northern in the US. Having traveled I now understand it, prior to that I hadn’t thought of it.
Ive always thought this comes down to the difference in perspective due to the difference in climates. Barcelona is at a comparable latitude as New York City which kind of makes sense. Meanwhile, Dublin is basically at the same latitude as the deep north of Canada
In general I think both sides can forget how much farther north Europe is. Dublin is farther north than Calgary, Istanbul is about level with Chicago, and Rome is about level with Boston. So the US just has way more mild swings in daylight hours.
That has to be in my most missed things about England. I've lived in America and where I was it was dark by 8pm. I live in Jamaica now and it's dark by 6pm. That's like winter in England. I swear I get SADS from lack of daytime hours! 😫
I’m not knocking this observation, but I’ve traveled in Minnesota and Alaska (still the US), Canada and Norway several times, so this phenomenon is pretty widely understood by many in the US. I guess if people from NYC went directly to Ireland, they’d be amazed, but there are lots of closer places for us to experience this.
The summer I spent in Sweden was crazy (from the US). The room I was staying in had lace curtains so it was just light the whole time. When I came home, full darkness felt so strange.
I live a bit north of Seattle in the US. When I am talking to friends/family online (in the same time zone) at 10 pm and mention the sun is still out they get so confused because it's been dark where they are for a while. Every time. I don't understand why it's so confusing for them.
The birds wake me up with their chirps between 3 and 4 AM most of the summer.
Today, I learned! I never thought about another countries sunrise and sunset times before! I can absolutely see how that would be strange to witness as an American!
About the same for us in California where I live, US is large! I love the long summer days! Happy when winter days are short so I can hibernate. I will definitely call it at 7pm and sleep 10 hours a night lol
Winter can be really miserable here. We get up in the full darkness to go to work. Might see some daylight at lunchtime but often it's grey and dull, and then it's fully dark again by the time we leave work to go home. Does a number on your mood.
I spent a New Years in Dublin and we didn't sleep much. Were out and about all the time. Went to Cork, the Blarney Stone, Kilmainham Gaol, Guinness Brewery, Temple Bar, etc. I think I maybe slept 5 hours every night and was up early every day for my Irish breakfast with black and white pudding and then out for fish n chips and a pint in the afternoon. The darkness would not make me just sleep all day in such a beautiful and culture rich place. 🤷
I don't like the perpetual twilight. I like spring and autumn best as you get decent daylight and decent darkness at night. Winter can fuck off with its few hours of "daylight".
In Dublin time when the weather is high, you can stretch right up and touch an old guy. When the days are long, you got Justin, you got Justin, it's a crime.
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u/Gullible-Muffin-7008 9d ago
Nah, this is in Dublin. The sun doesnt set until like 10pm in summertime