Nobody calls the settlements home exactly, but military and scientific personnel are based there throughout the year. The summer sun can last 16+ hours. But Pobeda is nudged out of pole position in the Cherskiy Range by an unnamed 2547m summit on the Chemalginskiy ridge, which lies almost exactly on the Arctic Circle, giving it a calculated 5006 hours of daylight. From September to March the mountains make it impossible for the rays of sun. Imagine a little village located in a valley to the south of Norway, surrounded by mountains. Barrow can go two months without seeing any sunlight, because it is located just a few hundred kilometres from the Arctic Polar Circle. The southern Indian city of Bengaluru has emerged as the most traffic-congested city in the world, according to TomTom’s Traffic Index, which details the traffic situation in 416 cities in 57 countries on six continents. Americans watch more television than any other country in the world. Rainfall does not exceed 200mm per year and temperatures exceed 40°C practically 100 days per year. The length of the days here can vary significantly. "There could indeed be more extreme locations, like Death Valley in California for example, but these sites wouldn't make the running because they aren't 'first order' stations," says Crimmins. We return to North America to visit Barrow, located in the extreme north point of Alaska. A 2012 Rasmussen poll of 1,000 American adults found that 45 percent thought daylight-saving time was worth it, while more than 40 percent considered it worthless. Watch the sun rise and set all over the world on this real-time, computer-generated illustration of the earth's patterns of sunlight and darkness. That's the farthest north the sun moves in the sky, … The extra sunlight helps in that area. Although we have that old adage which states “Tomorrow is another day,” we can never tell. Sure enough, the prime locations for catching rays were found far away from any big centres of human habitation. Presumably the number of daylight hours on other places on the globe - London for example - will somewhere between the polar and equitorial amounts? Despite an observed decline due to online streaming options, Americans still rank first in terms of television watched. If you are a serious sun-seeker, you will want to spend your time in the sunniest place possible. We review, According to the World Meteorological Organization, Yuma (Arizona) is the sunniest place on earth. On June 21st, sunrise is at 5:46 AM and sunrise is at 6:09 PM. It is so far north, there are several weeks of the year when the Sun does not rise at all. And while for most of us that usually means it’s the start of daylight savings time or we’re feeling the full effects of jet lag, for some parts of the world — it’s a way of life. It is commonly knowns as the "the Valley of the Sun" (so original...) and it has a population of approximately one and a half million. It is estimated that Americans spend 270 minutes per day watching TV. Here, in the middle of the North Atlantic, between the Scottish coast and Iceland, is an archipelago battered by strong winds and where fog and cloudy skies are commonplace. The world time zone map uses a repeating color scheme to designate the different standard time zones observed in each country. But in the depths of December it is a very different story. The summer solstice is the day when there are the most daylight hours in the northern hemisphere, usually occurring on June 21st or 22nd. In daylight hours, the flat-bottomed tour boats give a safer vantage point. With the possibility of 24 hours of sunlight and relatively few clouds to obscure it, Ellesmere Island's research stations technically have the most hours of sunshine in the world – during the month of May at least. Its tracking system enables them to track the sun depending on the height thereof and reflect sunlight downwards to the main square, where the inhabitants of Rjukan can feel a little bit of sun on their faces while they chat to their neighbours. The Mercator projection used here is one way of looking at the spherical earth as a flat map. On top of that, it is hard to get accurate recordings from deserts: they are notoriously inaccessible, and equipment there could end up variously smothered by sand or frozen overnight. View image of Ellesmere Island is surprisingly sunny (Credit: All Canada Photos/Alamy Stock Photo), View image of Skeleton Lake, Ellesmere Island (Credit: All Canada Photos/Alamy Stock Photo), View image of Yuma, Arizona looks convincingly sun-drenched (Credit: Mervyn Rees/Alamy Stock Photo), View image of Death Valley is famous for its roasting heat (Credit: RooM the Agency/Alamy Stock Photo), View image of The Pacific off Hawaii is sunny. Do you know that while you spend your hours sleeping, working, or eating, there are many other things happening in the world simultaneously? California. Sometimes it is more sometimes less. The presenter, Vicky, visits the city of Tromsø in Norway - the most northerly city in the world. "This creates many cloud-free days and warm temperatures.". Both the Arctic and the Antarctic have the most daylight hours. "Warm, moist air rises at the equator forming tropical thunderstorms, and then on a large scale sinks around 30 N and 30 S latitude, resulting in surface high pressure," says Crimmins. Daylight-saving time (DST) was first implemented during World War I as a way to cut energy use. One way to define the sunniest place is to ask which spot gets the most continuous hours of sun. This website is established in service of the Highest Light. Yet Yuma's sunshine crown is hotly contested, because records do not show a whole picture. 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