Happy solstice

[radiantfracture]

Because this was fun in other years: what are your hours of daylight today, on the summer (or winter) solstice?

Today I woke up at 4:45 am to the bird parliaments already in full session, debating beauty, territory, scandal, survival. Since it is the solstice, instead of rolling over and trying to sleep in the half-light, I got up, toed on my doing-to-the-laundry slip-ons, and walked around the block, admiring the subtle and variegated sunrise.

The crows were assholes because they are nesting, and kept announcing my presence with klaxon cries. (C'mon, crows. When have I ever eaten one of you?) I found a telephone pole painted with art that eerily echoed my novel's imagery (or vice versa).

My phone says the sun rose at 5:10 this morning. Timeanddate.com says that today I will experience

• Sixteen hours and seven minutes of daylight, between 5:11 am and 9:18 pm
• An hour and 24 minutes of civil twilight (4:29 am - 5:11 am and 9:18 pm - 10:00 pm)
• Just shy of two hours of nautical twilight (1:58) (3:30 am - 4:29 am and 10:00 pm - 10:59 pm)
• 3 hours and 51 minutes of astronomical twilight, and
• 40 minutes of true night.

How about you?

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Comments

[redbird]

Sunrise at 5:26, sunset at 8:26 (daylight saving time)
length of day 15 hours 17 minutes
length of visible light 16 hours 26 minutes

Tomorrow will be 1 second longer than today.

Four hours and 13 minutes of true night (arithmetic hand-calculated from the times given for end, and beginning, of astronomical twilight. For whatever "true night" means in an urban area like this.

(Those collected from the Weather Underground page that also tells me the current conditions, forecast, humidity, average and record high and low temperatures for the day, pollen count, and a variety of other things.)

I woke around eight. We have serious opaque curtains in the living room, necessary in part because that's an east window.

[cmcmck]

Sunrise 4.45 and sunset 21.38 today.

Daylight 04:15 to 22:08

Dawn and dusk 03:55 and 22.28

It's the wood pigeons that tend to start up early here!

[naraht]

Zero true night!

Daylight 04:46 - 21:27. Total daylight:16:41 hours

[switterbeet]

Sunrise-Sunset: 5:41 am - 9:04 pm
Daylight: 15h23m

Dawn: 5:05 am - 5:41 am
Dusk: 9:04 pm - 9:39 pm
Twilight: 1h11m

Night: 3h58m

[radiantfracture]

Such a good long day! You must be at an impressive latitude.

What are wood pigeons like?

[radiantfracture]

Zero true night!

A little bit jealous -- my family is just a smidge north of me, but they also have no true night.

[cmcmck]

We're in the Midlands of the UK and well to the west.

They're about twice the size of the feral town pigeon and rather handsome birds.

[naye]

Sun: 04:07 - 22:12
Total daylight: 18:06
No true night or astronomical twilight. Nautical: 03:27, civil: 02:27-

It's amazing. My icon shows my general part of the world at midnight at this time of year.

[sonia]

Happy Solstice! Fun to look at other people's length of day. This is the furthest north I've lived, but clearly a bunch of you live further north than that!

Sunrise 5:22 AM, Sunset 9:04 PM, Length of Day 15 h 41 m
Civil Twilight 1 h 15 m
Astronomical Twilight 2 h 19 m
Nautical Twilight 1 h 42 m
True Night 3 h 2 m

"Tomorrow will be 0 minutes 0 seconds longer" - Weather Underground

[glinda]

Sunrise at 4.17am, sunset will be 22.18 tonight.
I'll have eighteen hours (and one minute!) of daylight today.
The moon will be up, but there will be no true night/actual darkness. (For which reason I have black out curtains in my bedroom.)

If I sleep with the windows open I will be awoken by a chorus of seagulls, perhaps with a counterpoint of oyster catchers who I suspect are also shouting 'shut up' at the seagulls.

[elusis]

Timeanddate.com says:

Sunrise 5:11am (though Google says "dawn" is 4:31am? Is that different? I guess it is?)
Sunset 9:10pm (Google says "dusk" is 9:51pm)

15:59 of daylight
1:22 of civil twilight
1:53 of nautical twilight
3:03 of astronomical twilight
1:43 of true night

[hilarita]

Night:
Not for this day
Total:00:00
Astronomical Twilight:
00:00 - 02:28
23:34 - 00:00
Total:02:54
Nautical Twilight:
02:28 - 03:48
22:13 - 23:34
Total:02:41
Civil Twilight:
03:48 - 04:38
21:24 - 22:13
Total:01:39
Daylight:
04:38 - 21:24
Total:16:46

[isis]

I think I live the most equatorward of any of your commenters: daylight here is 14:44, from 5:51-8:35. I don't get much sleep this time of year; I can't imagine living more poleward, as the times I've been in Alaska or Scotland near the solstice for vacation I have had very little sleep indeed.

[danieldwilliam]

Sunrise in Edinburgh tomorrow is 4.26am. Sunset is 22.03. 17 hours 37 minutes of suntime.

In Aberdeen where I used to live 4.12 to 22.09.

In Stromness on Orkney where I'm going on holiday 4.01 to 22.29.

When I was a kid my dad used to wake us up and take us to the beach to watch the sunrise.

[radiantfracture]

That is stunning.

[radiantfracture]

Ahh oystercatchers -- I don't see them often but I love their goofy faces.

[radiantfracture]

Maybe dawn and dusk are civil twilight? That would roughly line up mathematically.

[radiantfracture]

Yes, so far you win for equatorial equanimity.

I was in Scotland one summer, but too young to register the specialness of the time.

[radiantfracture]

Orkney! Will you go to the library?

[elusis]

Yes, it seems so when I check Time and Date. Oh Google.

[kindkit]

Sunrise 5:48, sunset 8:22, for 14 hours 35 minutes of daylight.
1 hour exactly of civil twilight (5:18-5:48 am and 8:22-8:52 pm)
1:15 of nautical twilight (4:40-5:18 am and 8:52-9:30 pm)
1:23 astronomical twilight (3:59-4:40 am and 9:30-10:11 pm)
5:47 of night (12:00-3:59 am and 10:11 pm-12)

And tomorrow will be shorter, by less than 1 second.

Every year around this time I wish we could somehow have summer solstice in the winter and vice versa, for long cool days and short hot days. But I know enough basic astronomy to understand why it wouldn't work.

[bibliofile]

Sunrise 5:19 am, sunset 8:41 pm, 15:22 daylight
first light 4:43 am
last light 9:17 pm
7:26 of night?

[danieldwilliam]

No particular plans to do so. We will probably drive past it on the way to see some people in Kirkwall. I think it's only just re-opened from the COVIDs/

[glinda]

They are ridiculous birds and I love them. Also much preferable to have nesting on my building’s roof than seagulls.

[elusis]

And for the record we ate the first part of our dinner outdoors last night at 915pm and it was perfectly easy to see without any added lighting. :)

[radiantfracture]

Ah, that sounds perfect. We had a showoff solstice sunset I just caught.

[contrarywise]

I'm late to the party as usual, but here on 6.20.21, sunrise was at 5:08 and sunset at 8:26 for a total of 15:18 (length of visible light = 16:27). Today's times have varied by much less than a minute, apparently—tomorrow, there will be a whopping 2 seconds less of daylight than there was today.

[derien]

Because I didn't see this on the day I can only give an imprecise answer of 'about 15.5 hrs of daylight.'

My sense of the Solstice is messed up this year. We missed last year's annual Solstice camping trip because of COVID and I missed this year's because of my recent health issues. And my family is visiting, which is lovely! But messes with my time sense to no end.

[radiantfracture]

Yes, family time is a whole other kind of time.