Sunrise and Sunset in Sweden

Week 24:

Hello followers and everyone who just drops in for a quick read of my blog! I will start off with my week review and then I will talk about the sun times and all that fun stuff involving that.
This week has not been very exciting since the weather has not been warm enough to do a lot of outside activities. The temperatures were very similar to last week, which is very cold.  However, I did go watch the JAS game on Tuesday night for something to do. They played against Falun which is about an hour away from Mora (closer to Stockholm). The game was very close throughout the whole thing but Falun managed to stay ahead by one goal the whole game, so they took the win. So that was the fun this week.
Now into the times of the sunrise and sunset. I arrived here in August when the length of sun we had was 15 hrs and 50 min which compared to Ontario they had 14hrs and 15min. We had a lot longer times compared to my fellow Ontarians.  In August the sun would rise at about 5 am in the middle of the month and it would set at about 20:50 at night. I did not notice it that much except in the mornings since we use room darkening curtains to keep the sun out of the room. If you didn't do this you would probably be up early in the morning. Moving to December during the Winter Solstice, which fell on the 22nd of December...that day in Mora we had about 6hrs and 4min of sunlight. In Ontario you guys had almost 9 hrs of sunlight so a little bit different. Then from December 22nd each week we start to get about 30 min back of sunlight which you start to notice a little bit each week since darkness takes a toll on your body after a while. Each week I usually took a 1-2 hr nap since you just do not feel like you have a lot of energy to do anything else. They do try to eat a lot of oranges during the winter to keep their vitamins up which helps sometimes. I just drink all the orange juice Åsa gets....I love it and I do not like peeling the oranges so that is my way of having oranges. But the spring (about April) we are looking at about 14 hrs. of sunlight in the middle of the month! So a lot of sunlight we will be getting! Then the longest time we get during summer is in June and it is the 20th. That day we get 18 hrs and about 40 min. Toronto will get only 15 hrs. and 30 min of sunlight. So in the winter Ontario gets more sunlight by about 3 hrs and in the summer Sweden (Middle Sweden) gets about 3 hrs and 10 min more. So very similar time differences. In June I am leaving the 23rd so I will get to experience the longest day we have! It will be different since the sunsets at 22:10 so you can do a lot more with your day then you usually get to. This is just some of our times that we see but I will link below a website that if you click it, it will take you to Stockholm times.  I will also tag Boden's times. Boden is far north Sweden, they will have about 18 days where the sun will not set meaning they have sun all day...literally all day! So you will see differences from Ontario (lowest of the three I will link) , Stockholm (middle of the three) and Boden (highest of the three) and you can change the months to see the different times each month of sunlight they get! Hope that gives you some info of Sweden's sun compared to Ontario sun!

Toronto, Ontario (43.7000° N, 79.4000° W): http://www.timeanddate.com/sun/canada/toronto

Stockholm, Sweden (59.3294° N, 18.0686° E): http://www.timeanddate.com/sun/sweden/stockholm

Boden, Sweden ( 65.8251° N, 21.6887° E): http://www.timeanddate.com/sun/sweden/boden

PS. If you look at the latitude between Toronto and Boden it is about a 22° difference. A city in Canada on the same latitude as Boden would be Iqaluit, Nunavut. So now you see the difference from where Toronto is compared to Boden!