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Sunshine hours for selected cities in North America and Central America Country City Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year Ref. Canada Calgary: 119.5 144.6 177.2 220.2 249.4 269.9 314.1 284.0 207.0 175.4 121.1 114.0 2,396.3 [191] Canada Churchill: 79.7 117.7 177.8 198.2 197.0 243.0 281.7 225.9 112.0 58.1 55.3 53.1 1,799.5 [192 ...
Homer from space. Homer is located at 59°38'35" North, 151°31'33" West (59.643059, −151.525900). [4] The only road into Homer is the Sterling Highway. [5] The town has a total area of 25.5 square miles (66 km 2), of which 15 square miles (39 km 2) are land and 10.5 square miles (27 km 2) are covered by water.
Because of Anchorage's high latitude, summer days are very long and winter daylight hours are very short. The longest day of sunlight being 18hrs and 21 minutes, and shortest being 5 hours and 28 minutes. [3] Anchorage is often cloudy during the winter, which decreases the amount of sunlight experienced by residents.
It marks the time when the Earth's northern axis is tilted the farthest away from the sun. That means Dec. 21 will have the shortest amount of daylight — about seven hours and 40 minutes in ...
The Alaska Time Zone observes standard time by subtracting nine hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−09:00). During daylight saving time its time offset is eight hours ( UTC−08:00 ). The clock time in this zone is based on mean solar time at the 135th meridian west of the Greenwich Observatory .
The December-solstice solar year is the solar year based on the December solstice. It is thus the length of time between adjacent December solstices. The length of the December-solstice year has been relatively stable between 6000 BC and AD 2000, in the range of 49 minutes 30 seconds to 50 minutes in excess of 365 days 5 hours.
If the bill had passed, daylight savings time would have become permanent on Nov. 5, 2023—meaning that the clocks would remain at the same time they shifted to back on March 12, 2023, without ...
Given the theoretical maximum of daytime duration for a given location, there is also a practical consideration at which point the amount of daylight is sufficient to be treated as a "sunshine hour". "Bright" sunshine hours represent the total hours when the sunlight is stronger than a specified threshold, as opposed to just "visible" hours.