In St. Petersburg, the grand city of the czars, they call them the “White Nights”: those 80 or so evenings, running from May to the end of July, when the city emerges from long months of cold and darkness and celebrates the brief return of nearly round-the-clock daylight.
The White Nights Festival is an annual summer festival in Saint Petersburg celebrating its near-midnight sun phenomena due to its location near the Arctic Circle; each year between around April 21 and August 21, the skies only reach twilight and never reach complete darkness.
The largest city of the world north of the Arctic Circle, Murmansk (Russia), experiences the midnight sun from 22 May to 22 July (62 days). A quarter of Finland's territory lies north of the Arctic Circle, and at the country's northernmost point the Sun does not set at all for 72 days during summer.
The White Nights Festival in Saint Petersburg is famous for fireworks and Scarlet Sails, a show celebrating the end of school year. Other festivals following this lead have arisen using names such as White Night, Light Nights or Nuit Blanche which may be held in the winter as opposed to the summer.
During the Northern hemisphere's summer, the North pole is tipped towards the sun, owing to the fact that the Earth revolves on a tilted axis. Hence from May-July, in cities with a particularly Northerly latitude, the sun never dips far beneath the horizon even at night.
In St. Petersburg, the grand city of the czars, they call them the “White Nights”: those 80 or so evenings, running from May to the end of July, when the city emerges from long months of cold and darkness and celebrates the brief return of nearly round-the-clock daylight.
noun. a sleepless night. a summer night in high latitudes when it is not fully dark.
white night (plural white nights) A sleepless night. (astronomy) A night with only civil twilight, where the sun does not go further than 6° below the horizon.
It is a beach party for all our guests to eat, drink and enjoy a beautiful night at the Caribbean. White clothe is part of the theme, however it is not obligatory.
The 40-minute night in Norway takes place in June 21 situation. At this time, the entire part of the earth from 66 degree north latitude to 90 degree north latitude remains under sunlight and this the reason why the sun sets for only 40 minutes. Hammerfest is a very beautiful place.
Relatively high in the north, the days are long in summer (June to September) and short in winter (December to March). With up to about 17:40 hours, there are the longest days in June. The longest dark nights, on the other hand, are in winter.
Located more than 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, Tromsø, Norway, is home to extreme light variation between seasons. During the Polar Night, which lasts from November to January, the sun doesn't rise at all.
During and after World War II, many Russian émigrés moved to the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Peru, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, South Africa and Australia – where many of their communities still exist in the 21st century.
The term “Belarus” is a national designation introduced by ideologists of the Belarusian nationalist movement at the end of the 19th, beginning of the 20th century. The national territory covers the historic regions of White Rus (White Russian Podwinje and Podneprovje), Black Rus and Polessje (Gomel and surroundings).
Each June, St. Petersburg and much of northern Russia experience the "White Nights" phenomenon. St. Petersburg is so far north that it experiences nearly 24 hours a day of sunlight from mid-May to mid-July.
White Night Returns in 2022
White Night is back to light up your weekend getaways in Shepparton, Bendigo and Geelong in 2022. These three unique cities will be illuminated with White Night experiences that pay respect to each town past and present.
White Night Bendigo 2022
More than 200 artists presented exhibitions, installations and projections bringing the city's beautiful heritage streets, parks and buildings to life in a dazzling display of dancing, neon dogs, giant images and carnival sounds.
“White Night”, one of Tel Aviv's biggest events of the year, is a traditional annual citywide celebration which keeps the city up all night – everything is open, and everything is happening throughout the city simultaneously.
Blue Nights is about what happens when there are no more stories we can tell ourselves, no narrative to guide us and make sense out of the chaos, no order, no meaning, no conclusion to the tale."
For White Nights, a team of travelogue filmmakers from Finland, who previously had done work in the Soviet Union, were hired to film a number of locations in Leningrad, such as the Kirov Theatre and the Lenin monument, as well as a Chaika state-limousine.
White Night Geelong 2022
On Saturday, 8 October 2022, a record breaking 93,000 people took to the streets of Geelong in a celebration of music, art, culture and community as the world-renowned White Night returned to the city for the first time in four years.
Iceland faces extreme changes in daylight throughout the year. The Iceland Midnight Sun, also known as 'polar day', is a natural phenomenon that occurs during the summer months when the sun remains visible 24 hours a day, meaning the sun never fully sets.
Norway. Across the globe, Norway is known as the land of the midnight sun. For an extensive period of almost three months, the country experiences broad daylight. In fact, the sun tends to shine too glaringly around this time and the night is shrunk down to a span of 4 to 5 hours.
The earth is rotating at a tilted axis relative to the sun, and during the summer months, the North Pole is angled towards our star. That's why, for several weeks, the sun never sets above the Arctic Circle. Svalbard is the place in Norway where the midnight sun occurs for the longest period.