In less than a month, more than an hour and a half of daylight has been added to the day.
Days are getting longer and the light is now increasing rapidly in the Helsinki region. Every day is getting longer. There is already enough light this week for both morning and afternoon commuters.
For example, on Monday the sun rose in Helsinki at a quarter past nine and set a little before five thirty.
In the second week of February, there is enough light as early as eight in the morning.
Day after day, the sun rises a couple of minutes earlier and sets a couple of minutes later. From the graphic below, you can see how the amount of light increases day by day.
Next on monday the sun rises before nine thirty and sets around twenty to five.
“During the week, the sun rises 16 minutes earlier and sets 18 minutes later,” says the specialist designer Asko Palviainen From the almanac office of the University of Helsinki.
From the beginning of January to today, there has been an hour of daylight in the evening and 40 minutes in the morning. A month from now, the day will already be more than four hours longer than on New Year's Day.
“The amount of light accelerates towards the spring equinox. Then it begins to slow down until it stops at the summer solstice.”
Summer solstice around midsummer is the longest day of the year, when it is bright for about 19 hours a day in Helsinki.
After this, the days start to get shorter again.
The shortest day is in December on the winter solstice before Christmas. Then the sun shines in Helsinki for just under six hours a day at most.
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