How many hours of sunlight are in the longest day of the year ?

Question

How many hours of sunlight are in the longest day of the year ?

Answer 1

It depends on where you are in relation to the equator.  But in New York on June 20-21 the sun rises at 5:24 am and sets at approximately 8:31 pm, so that is right around 15 hours and a few minutes.

Answer 2

yea 17 or 20....i know its in alaska

Answer 3

17

Answer 4

And the answer is 24.

(But depending on where you are, you might not be able to see it.)

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Answer 5

It depends on where you live. In Antarctica Alaska, Greenland, Lapland or any other extreme northerly or southerly territory you'll get weeks or even months of daylight in a row.

If you're in most places, you'll only get 2 or 3 more hours, so maybe 16.

Answer 6

The number of hours of sunlight depends on where you are.

In Scandinavia -

In the far north the longest day of the year (twenty to twenty-four hours of sunlight as compared to zero to six mid-winter) is a joyous occasion!

Honolulu, Hawaii

Much closer to the equator and the 12-hour daylight that places on the equator experience on June 20-21, Honolulu has a sunrise of 5:50 a.m. and sunset of 7:16 p.m.

The earliest sunrise in Hawaii is 5:49 a.m. from May 28-June 18 and the latest sunset is 7:18 p.m. from June 29-July 10.