Reading Charts
Daylight Hours: 70° N Averaged More Than the Equator in 2026
By the standard sunrise definition, 70° N averaged about 12.58 hours of daylight a day in 2026 to the equator's 12.12, helped by slanting sunrises and a longer northern half-year.
Published November 1, 2026
Image credit
"Summer Night, Raftsundet, Lofoten" by Adelsteen Normann — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adelsteen_Normann_-_Sommernatt_i_Raftsund_-_TKM-29-1887_-_Trondheim_kunstmuseum_(cropped).jpg — Public domain (Oil on canvas by Adelsteen Normann (1848–1918), Trondheim Art Museum TKM-29-1887, dated presumably 1887 on the Commons file page; the painter died 26 December 1918, so the work is in the public domain in Norway and the EU (life plus 70 years) and in the United States (published before 1931, per the file page). Faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional public-domain work (PD-Art); the file is marked with the Public Domain Mark 1.0); modified: cropped to the painting by a Commons contributor (CropTool, lossless) from the framed museum photograph; used unchanged