What time does the sun go down where you are?

[SilveradoCA]

I've lived in Fort McMurray for 13 years, and one of the things I enjoy is the long, long daylight we have in the summer. It's really something to get off work and have hours and hours of light to do things. (In the dead of winter, we have about 6 hours of useful daylight per day.)

 

I have a little tradition of doing something on the eve of Summer Solstice right until it's "dark" outside. This year, the sun will not touch the horizon until 10:21pm; twilight lasts from 11:28pm until technically 4:33am when the sun rises again. We don't experience full dark at all between May 1st and August 10th, though the sun is below the horizon.

 

When I was the president of our shooting range, we used to hold a Solstice shoot where we'd BBQ, then shoot trap & skeet until it was too dark to see the clays anymore (around midnight), then have a monster bonfire. This year I'm going for a ride.

 

How 'bout where you are?

[Flyinfool]

In the summer we get usable light till around 9:30. But from mid December until mid January I will not see daylight except for the rare case where we should happen to have clear skies on a weekend.

[SilvrT]

According to the weather network, sunset here is at 8:53 PM but since we are between two mountains it disappears much sooner ... yet it is still light out for quite some time afterwards. Cloudy and raining today but when we have the next day of clear skies I'll take note of just when it becomes "dark" .... like too dark to see the clay pigeons (or any pigeons for that matter) LOL

[Sylvester]

Usually after I am asleep.

 

[camos]

I've lived in Fort McMurray for 13 years, and one of the things I enjoy is the long, long daylight we have in the summer. It's really something to get off work and have hours and hours of light to do things. (In the dead of winter, we have about 6 hours of useful daylight per day.)

When I was fishing during the summer off the west coast of Vancouver Island we fished from dawn to dusk so we put the gear out at about 5 am and pulled it about 9 pm. There were times though when we fished for several weeks in Dixon Entrance which is the strait/boundary between Haida Gwai and Alaska. Still fished from dawn to dusk but it was about 4 am to 10 pm and sometimes until 11 pm. Made for a really long day.

 

Most of the northern fishermen were anchored up by 8-9 pm which gave us southern boys a lot less competition for the night bite. The lack of sleep made for pretty tough going though so it was a relief when we followed the salmon on their way down the west coast of Haida Gwai and then jumped across to northern Vancouver Island. Working a 17 hour day was again was far more civilized than trying to keep up with a 20 hour day.

[Gary N.]

Today in Windsor Ontario sunset is at 9:08 pm. We are about as far south in Canada as you can get without having a boat. Right at the 42 parallel north latitude, the same as northern California.

[Chaharly]

I think its been getting dark around 10 30 here. I'd sure love another hour of light though! That BBQ sure sounds like a good time too!

[chabicheka]

6.45 pm. Moshi, Tanzania