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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AsEver" data-source="post: 1821463" data-attributes="member: 8922">Indeed, north of the Arctic Circle (about 66 degrees North) the sun doesn't set between mid-May and early August.  And in the winter, it doesn't rise between mid-November and late January.<a href="http://www.alaska.com/about/weather/story/4481284p-4773632c.html" target="_blank">Here's</a> a site with some info.  Even in Anchorage (61 degrees North), for a month in the summer, the sun rises north of NE and sets well north of NW.  The sun pretty much circles the sky as you describe.  We officially get 19h 21m of daylight on the summer solstice.  It doesn't really get that dark, even with the sun down.  You can read a newspaper at midnight.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>