Quando tramonta il sole nelle capitali europee durante il solstizio d’inverno?

Long night in Stockholm

Why would the sun set earlier in Stockholm than in Helsinki when Stockholm is closer to the equator? Or even Iceland. I don’t get it.

Now where is my vitamin D

Yet another reason to move to Spain

You are definitely in the wrong time zone if the value is outside 1500 and 1700. Closer to 1500 the more north you are. And closer to 1700 near the Mediterranean

Even within The Netherlands there’s a half our difference between the most southern and northern most part.

Balkans are having early sunsets, because the want to live in CET.

Just a side note, but the earliest sunset of the year is *not* on the day of winter solstice. It’s actually about 2 weeks earlier, on 11 or 12 of December (depends on your latitude). And the latest sunrise is about 2 weeks *after* the solstice.

The shortest day of the year is on the solstice, yes, but that is not the day of the earliest sunset/latest sunrise. I never learned about it in school and was fairly surprised it works that way when I found out a few years ago.

The reason for that is (mainly) the axial tilt of the Earth and the fact that the Earth is closest to the Sun in January, so currently it travels more distance on its orbit every day than average, while the rotational speed of our planet is constant. This in turn causes the solar noon to be “dragged forward” a minute or so every day, causing this effect. Exactly the opposite thing happens in the summer (latest sunset is *after* the summer solstice).

EDIT: for those interested, more detailed explanation of this phenomenon can be found [here](https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/earliest-sunset.html) or [here](https://earthsky.org/tonight/earliest-sunset-today-but-not-shortest-day/). For those interested in exact times for your location, I recommend the website [Gaisma](https://www.gaisma.com/en/location/warsaw.html) (change the location to your city). You can see that in 1 month, the day in Warsaw will be 1 hour longer than today, even though the sunrise will be just 10 minutes later than now. The majority of the “day gain” will be in the evening, since the sun has been setting later every day since December 11.

EDIT 2: You can even use [this API](https://api.sunrise-sunset.org/json?lat=51.00000&lng=17.00000&date=2025-12-21) (plug in your coordinates and date) for ultra precise times down to the second.

That’s not where Amsterdam is.

An interesting situation exists between Poland and Belarus. Belarus uses UTC+3 all year, whereas Poland changes its time: UTC+1 in winter and UTC+2 in summer. In winter, the difference between Poland and Belarus is two hours.
There are two cities: the Belarusian city of Brest and the Polish city of Biała Podlaska. The distance between these cities is around 40 kilometers. I met a friend who lived in Brest and studied in Biała Podlaska. When his first lesson started at 9 a.m., he left home at 10 a.m. The return journey was more painful.

Can you please explain Dublin V London? Is it because we see the map flat / straight when instead it should be tilted?

People in the arctic circle and above: ”*-what sun?*”

My day here in Aalborg in northern Denmark: sunrise 08:58 – 09:04, daylight 09:04 – 15:34, sunset 15:34 – 15:40. (Source suncalc.net)

Roughly 6.5 hours of daylight … today again filtered through fog and full cloud cover.