During the winter season, the exact opposite of the midnight sun occurs, with polar nights. This is why European countries which aren’t as northerly as Norway never get to experience the golden night-times of the midnight sun.Īs the Earth continues on its orbit and the tilt of the hemisphere gradually moves away from the sun, the darkness of night slowly returns. The further away from the pole you travel, the more diluted the effect of the sun becomes. It’s also why summer occurs at different times of the year in the north and south hemispheres.ĭuring the summer months when the hemisphere is tilted towards the sun, the poles experience sunlight for the full 24 hours. As it moves around the sun, the tilted axis means that at times part of the Earth will be closer to the sun than others. In addition to the earth rotating around on its own axis, it’s also circling the sun. If it were completely perpendicular there would be a fixed night and day of 12 hours each. However, the length of daytime and night-time hours is not equal and this is because the Earth is tilted on its axis by 23.4 degrees. The Earth rotates completely every 24 hours, and it’s this movement that creates night and day. This phenomenon occurs every year as it’s not due to some strange aberration, but due to the physics of the Earth and the sun. In Nordkapp, the sun shines for 1800 hours without interruption - a total of 75 days.
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