When people think of Iceland they usually imagine it being cold and dark. It is true that during winter it can get rather cold and daylight is scarce but we more than make up for it in the summer.
Iceland (Reykjavik) has an average of 14.9 hours of daylight each day. This is more than in most places in the world and about two hours more than Miami in the sunny state of Florida! Thus Iceland gains daylight in the summer months with its famous midnight sun than is absent during winter.
Looking at the graph one observes a difference between the north and south hemispheres, the north having more hours of daylight. This is because the earth's orbit is not quite circular, causing the sun to dwell longer over the northern hemisphere than the southern one.
Source: The Icelandic University Almanac, 1996
In our sunset photogallery you can se beautiful images of sundowns in Iceland.
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