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The short days are definitely tough. The shortest day of the year has less than 8 hours of sunshine. Sun comes up at 9am and sets by 4pm. However, Edmonton is usually quite sunny in the winter.

Conversely the summers are great. It's light from 5am to 10pm, so get almost 17 hours of sunlight. If you include twilight, it's more like 18 hours.




It's not that different from much of Europe. Edmonton is at the same latitude as Dublin.


I'm in Hull in the UK and we have basically identical latitude, Hull is just fractionally north.

Winter nights are long but I love them, I sleep far better in the cold and dark than hot and light, insomnia and the sun appearing at 4:30am sucks.


Yeah, I agree. I lived in London, UK for a while and found the lack of sunlight much worse. Edmonton has a lot of sun, which makes it pretty tolerable.




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