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How much daylight do we actually get in Germany?
The days in Germany and Central Europe are getting longer again. Luckily it is still light on the way home from the office.
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On Easter weekend, people in Central Europe will see more daylight than residents in the southern hemisphere for the first time this year. The interactive graphic provides information about the annual course of the hours of sunshine.
Sure, there are always 24 hours in a day. But how many hours of daylight a place gets depends on how far south or north it is and what latitude it is at. Only at zero degrees on the equator are the days and nights always the same length – namely twelve hours each.
Not only are the temperatures rising in Germany these days, the days are also getting longer. Both the journey to the office and the long-awaited journey home no longer have to be made in depressing darkness. But how much daylight do we really get in our latitudes? The graphic below provides information about the annual course of the hours of sunshine at various points on earth.
Up to 13 hours of daylight at Easter
Germany lies between the 47th and 55th parallels north. In Frankfurt, which is approximately 50 degrees north latitude, people can look forward to 13 hours of sunshine at Easter. This week, for the first time, the number of hours of sunshine in Central Europe is higher than in the southern hemisphere. In Germany we get the most daylight in June – then it can be up to 16 hours. Further north the sun sets a little later on summer days, further south a little earlier.
Hover your mouse on the latitude of your region to see the daylight hours for different seasons and individual days.
In winter, the daylight hours are significantly shorter in our latitudes: around the winter solstice in December, there is around eight hours of light per day in Frankfurt. Further north, the days are even slightly shorter (around six hours of sunlight). In the south of the Northern Hemisphere the days are slightly longer, even in winter. Here people have up to twelve hours of daylight, even on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.
Source: Datawrapper