Summer Solstice

Top 50 Cities with Longest Summer Days

Cities ranked by daylight hours on the summer solstice. Higher latitudes experience dramatically longer days, with some Arctic cities enjoying near-continuous sunlight.

#1 Murmansk
Longest summer daylight
24h 0m
Longest summer day
18h 29m
Average in top 50
59°
Avg latitude of top 50

About Summer Solstice Day Length

The summer solstice occurs around June 21 in the Northern Hemisphere and December 21 in the Southern. Cities closer to the poles experience more extreme day lengths - with locations above the Arctic Circle (66.5°N) potentially having 24 hours of continuous daylight, known as the "midnight sun." This ranking shows the total daylight hours for each city's summer solstice.

Complete Rankings

Sorted by summer solstice day length (longest to shortest)

1

Murmansk

Russia

24h 0m
2

Oulu

Finland

21h 23m
3

Arkhangel’sk

Russia

20h 58m
4

Trondheim

Norway

20h 11m
5

Yakutsk

Russia

19h 26m
6

Petrozavodsk

Russia

19h 20m
7

Syktyvkar

Russia

19h 16m
8

Tampere

Finland

19h 12m
9

Surgut

Russia

19h 5m
10

Anchorage

Alaska, United States

19h 5m
11

Nizhnevartovsk

Russia

18h 58m
12

Turku

Finland

18h 46m
13

Bergen

Norway

18h 45m
14

Vantaa

Finland

18h 43m
15

Espoo

Finland

18h 41m
16

Helsinki

Finland

18h 40m
17

Kalininskiy

Russia

18h 37m
18

Krasnogvargeisky

Russia

18h 36m
19

Vasyl'evsky Ostrov

Russia

18h 35m
20

Saint Petersburg

Russia

18h 35m
21

Oslo

Norway

18h 35m
22

Centralniy

Russia

18h 35m
23

Tallinn

Estonia

18h 25m
24

Stockholm

Sweden

18h 22m
25

Vologda

Russia

18h 20m
26

Cherepovets

Russia

18h 19m
27

Kirov

Russia

18h 8m
28

Velikiy Novgorod

Russia

18h 7m
29

Rybinsk

Russia

17h 58m
30

Perm

Russia

17h 58m
31

Nizhny Tagil

Russia

17h 56m
32

Pskov

Russia

17h 55m
33

Kostroma

Russia

17h 53m
34

Göteborg

Sweden

17h 53m
35

Yaroslavl

Russia

17h 51m
36

Tyumen

Russia

17h 43m
37

Ivanovo

Russia

17h 41m
38

Riga

Latvia

17h 40m
39

Yekaterinburg

Russia

17h 38m
40

Izhevsk

Russia

17h 38m
41

Tver

Russia

17h 38m
42

Yoshkar-Ola

Russia

17h 35m
43

Tomsk

Russia

17h 33m
44

Nizhniy Novgorod

Russia

17h 31m
45

Dzerzhinsk

Russia

17h 29m
46

Cheboksary

Russia

17h 28m
47

Vladimir

Russia

17h 28m
48

Århus

Denmark

17h 28m
49

Bratsk

Russia

17h 28m
50

Krasnoyarsk

Russia

17h 26m

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