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On June 21, the sun comes up over Reykjavík at 2:55am and does not set until three minutes past midnight. There is no real darkness in between, just about three hours of twilight with the sun sitting under the horizon and the north still glowing. Six months later the same city waits until 11:20 for…
In mid-June the sun officially rises over Banff at about 5:25 in the morning. That is not when the light arrives. The Bow Valley is walled in on both sides, so the first real colour lands high on the face of Mount Rundle while the shoreline you are standing on stays blue and cold for…
The Old Man of Storr car park is a completely different place at four in the morning than it is at eleven. In the third week of June there is usable light in the sky over Trotternish from around 3:15am, the sun clears the horizon before 4:30, and the first tour traffic of the day…
In mid-June the sun clears the horizon over Göreme at 5:15 a.m., and the burners start well before that. Inflation begins twenty to thirty minutes ahead of launch, so the fields fill with envelopes lit from the inside while it is still dark, and by seven the sky is empty again. First light is 4:44.…
Around the June solstice the sun comes up over Reykjavik just before three in the morning and does not set until after midnight. Six months later it clears the horizon close to 11:20am and is gone again by about half past three. Almost every planning decision bends around those two numbers: when the ceremony happens,…
In early September the sun is up over the south of Iceland by 6:10 in the morning and still up at 20:45. Four weeks later it does not clear the horizon until after 7:30, and the light has gone before 19:05. Roughly three hours of daylight vanish inside a single month, which is why a…
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