I live in Asia so I spent my whole life having sunset between 6 to 630pm so by that time everywhere was pretty dark and the streetlamps came on. I was pretty shocked later in life when I found out that there are parts of the world like in Europe or the States where it’d still be bright out at fucking 730 or even 8pm. How come? I know that they are behind by Asia and Australia by some hours but why does the sun set later there too?
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The farther you get from the equator, the more extreme the sunset and sunrise times become. I live in the middle of Sweden, and in summer, when the North Pole lean towards the sun, it’s light out from very early to very late. On midsummer, the sun only dips just below the horizon, and it never really gets dark. In winter, when the pole leans away form the sun, it’s only light out for about six hours at the worst. At the same time, far southern countries have lots of sunlight. Go above the polar circle, and you’ve no sunset at all mid summer, and no sunrise at all mid winter.
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