The following tables contain information on the length of the day on December 22nd, close to the winter solstice of the Northern Hemisphere and the summer solstice of the Southern Hemisphere (i.e. December solstice). The data was collected from the website of the Finnish Meteorological Institute on 22 December 2015, as well as from certain other websites.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
The data is arranged geographically and within the tables from the shortest day to the longest one.
| The Nordic countries, Russia, and the Baltic states | |||
| City | Sunrise 21 Dec 2022 |
Sunset 21 Dec 2022 |
Length of the day |
|---|---|---|---|
 Murmansk |
— | — | 0 min |
| Apatity |
— | — | 0 min |
 Bodø |
11:35 | 12:24 | 49 min |
 Rovaniemi |
11:07 | 13:22 | 2 h 15 min |
 Luleå |
9:54 | 13:03 | 3 h 9 min |
 Reykjavík |
11:21 | 15:29 | 4 h 8 min |
| Trondheim |
10:01 | 14:31 | 4 h 30 min |
 Tórshavn |
9:50 | 14:59 | 5 h 9 min |
| Helsinki |
9:23 | 15:12 | 5 h 49 min |
| Oslo |
9:17 | 15:11 | 5 h 54 min |
 Tallinn |
9:17 | 15:20 | 6 h 3 min |
| Stockholm |
8:43 | 14:47 | 6 h 4 min |
 Riga |
8:59 | 15:43 | 6 h 44 min |
 Copenhagen |
8:36 | 15:38 | 7 h 2 min |
 Vilnius |
8:39 | 15:53 | 7 h 14 min |
| Europe | |||
| City | Sunrise 22 Dec 2015 |
Sunset 22 Dec 2015 |
Length of the day |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Petersburg |
10:00 | 15:53 | 5 h 53 min |
 Edinburgh |
8:42 | 15:40 | 6 h 57 min |
| Moscow |
8:57 | 15:58 | 7 h 00 min |
 Berlin |
8:15 | 15:54 | 7 h 39 min |
 Warsaw |
7:43 | 15:25 | 7 h 42 min |
| London |
8:04 | 15:53 | 7 h 49 min |
 Kyiv |
7:56 | 15:56 | 8 h 00 min |
 Paris |
8:41 | 16:56 | 8 h 14 min |
 Vienna |
7:42 | 16:03 | 8 h 20 min |
 Budapest |
7:28 | 15:55 | 8 h 26 min |
 Rome |
7:34 | 16:42 | 9 h 07 min |
 Madrid |
8:34 | 17:51 | 9 h 17 min |
 Lisbon |
7:51 | 17:18 | 9 h 27 min |
 Athens |
7:37 | 17:09 | 9 h 31 min |
| Africa | |||
| City | Sunrise 22 Dec 2015 |
Sunset 22 Dec 2015 |
Length of the day |
|---|---|---|---|
 Cairo |
6:47 | 16:59 | 10 h 12 min |
| Tenerife |
7:53 | 18:13 | 10 h 19 min |
 Dakar |
7:30 | 18:46 | 11 h 15 min |
 Addis Ababa |
6:35 | 18:11 | 11 h 36 min |
 Nairobi |
6:25 | 18:37 | 12 h 11 min |
 Kinshasa |
5:45 | 18:08 | 12 h 22 min |
 Dar es Salaam |
6:05 | 18:36 | 12 h 31 min |
 Luanda |
5:46 | 18:24 | 12 h 38 min |
 Antananarivo |
5:10 | 18:26 | 13 h 16 min |
 Windhoek |
6:04 | 19:35 | 13 h 31 min |
 Johannesburg |
5:12 | 18:59 | 13 h 47 min |
| Cape Town |
5:32 | 19:57 | 14 h 25 min |
| Middle East | |||
| City | Sunrise 22 Dec 2015 |
Sunset 22 Dec 2015 |
Length of the day |
|---|---|---|---|
 Tehran |
7:10 | 16:55 | 9 h 44 min |
 Beirut |
6:39 | 16:33 | 9 h 54 min |
 Baghdad |
7:02 | 16:59 | 9 h 57 min |
 Jerusalem |
6:35 | 16:39 | 10 h 04 min |
 Manama |
6:21 | 16:51 | 10 h 30 min |
 Doha |
6:15 | 16:49 | 10 h 34 min |
 Dubai |
7:00 | 17:34 | 10 h 34 min |
 Riyadh |
6:32 | 17:10 | 10 h 37 min |
 Muscat |
6:43 | 17:23 | 10 h 41 min |
 Sana'a |
6:25 | 17:38 | 11 h 13 min |
| Americas | |||
| City | Sunrise 22 Dec 2015 |
Sunset 22 Dec 2015 |
Length of the day |
|---|---|---|---|
 Inuvik |
— | — | 0 h |
 Fairbanks |
10:58 | 14:40 | 3 h 41 min |
 Nuuk |
10:22 | 14:28 | 4 h 06 min |
| Anchorage |
10:14 | 15:42 | 5 h 27 min |
| Edmonton |
8:48 | 16:15 | 7 h 27 min |
| Vancouver |
8:05 | 16:16 | 8 h 11 min |
| Seattle |
7:55 | 16:20 | 8 h 25 min |
| Ottawa |
7:39 | 16:22 | 8 h 42 min |
| Toronto |
7:48 | 16:43 | 8 h 55 min |
| New York City |
7:16 | 16:32 | 9 h 15 min |
| Washington, D.C. |
7:23 | 16:49 | 9 h 26 min |
| Los Angeles |
6:55 | 16:48 | 9 h 53 min |
| Dallas |
7:25 | 17:25 | 9 h 59 min |
| Miami |
7:03 | 17:35 | 10 h 31 min |
| Honolulu |
7:04 | 17:55 | 10 h 50 min |
 Mexico City |
7:06 | 18:03 | 10 h 57 min |
 Managua |
6:01 | 17:26 | 11 h 24 min |
 Bogotá |
5:59 | 17:50 | 11 h 51 min |
 Quito |
6:08 | 18:16 | 12 h 08 min |
 Recife |
5:00 | 17:35 | 12 h 35 min |
 Lima |
5:41 | 18:31 | 12 h 50 min |
 La Paz |
5:57 | 19:04 | 13 h 06 min |
| Rio de Janeiro |
6:04 | 19:37 | 13 h 33 min |
| São Paulo |
6:17 | 19:52 | 13 h 35 min |
| Salt Lake City |
7:48 | 17:03 | 9 h 14 min |
| Porto Alegre |
6:20 | 20:25 | 14 h 05 min |
 Santiago |
6:29 | 20:52 | 14 h 22 min |
 Buenos Aires |
5:37 | 20:06 | 14 h 28 min |
| Ushuaia |
4:51 | 22:11 | 17 h 19 min |
| Asia-Pacific | |||
| City | Sunrise 22 Dec 2015 |
Sunset 22 Dec 2015 |
Length of the day |
|---|---|---|---|
| Magadan |
8:54 | 14:55 | 6 h 00 min |
| Petropavlovsk |
9:36 | 17:10 | 7 h 33 min |
| Khabarovsk |
8:48 | 17:07 | 8 h 18 min |
 Ulaanbaatar |
8:39 | 17:02 | 8 h 22 min |
| Vladivostok |
8:40 | 17:40 | 8 h 59 min |
 Beijing |
7:32 | 16:52 | 9 h 20 min |
 Seoul |
7:44 | 17:17 | 9 h 34 min |
 Tokyo |
6:47 | 16:31 | 9 h 44 min |
| Shanghai |
6:48 | 16:55 | 10 h 07 min |
| Lhasa |
8:46 | 19:01 | 10 h 14 min |
 Delhi |
7:09 | 17:28 | 10 h 19 min |
 Hong Kong |
6:58 | 17:44 | 10 h 46 min |
 Manila |
6:16 | 17:32 | 11 h 15 min |
 Bangkok |
6:36 | 17:55 | 11 h 19 min |
 Singapore |
7:01 | 19:04 | 12 h 03 min |
 Jakarta |
5:36 | 18:05 | 12 h 28 min |
| Denpasar |
5:58 | 18:36 | 12 h 37 min |
 Darwin |
6:19 | 19:10 | 12 h 51 min |
 Papeete |
5:21 | 18:32 | 13 h 10 min |
| Brisbane |
4:49 | 18:42 | 13 h 52 min |
| Perth |
5:07 | 19:22 | 14 h 14 min |
| Sydney |
5:41 | 20:05 | 14 h 24 min |
 Auckland |
5:58 | 20:39 | 14 h 41 min |
| Melbourne |
5:54 | 20:42 | 14 h 47 min |
| Dunedin |
5:43 | 21:28 | 15 h 44 min |
| Invercargill |
5:50 | 21:39 | 15 h 48 min |
References
edit- ^ "Paikallissää Helsinki" [‘Local weather in Helsinki’] (in Finnish). Finnish Meteorological Institute. 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
- ^ "Perth, Australia". Retrieved 2015-12-22.
- ^ "São Paulo, Brazil". Retrieved 2015-12-22.
- ^ "Denpasar, Indonesia". Retrieved 2015-12-22.
- ^ "Edmonton, Canada". Retrieved 2019-12-21.
- ^ "Inuvik, Canada". Retrieved 2020-12-19. "Saint-Petersburg, Russia". Retrieved 2024-06-16.