why do we get more than 12h of daylight in Northern hemisphere if the Spring equinox is in 2 days?

Question

Time and Date website shows **12 hours 3 minutes** of daylight in my hometown, Calgary, AB, Canada.

[https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/canada/calgary](https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/canada/calgary)

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Answer 1

12h is not the maximum amount of daylight any one spot can receive. Once you go above or below certain latitudes, you can get uninterrupted daylight for weeks at a time.

Also, the place opposite you is getting the opposite amount of time, so when you were getting less than 12, they must have been getting more than 12.