Question About Time Zones (Maybe)?

Question

Where in the world does it get dark earliest? Isn't it Iceland or Greenland? I hear it gets dark at like 4 PM there. Probably wrong though :). Thanks for answers!

Answer 1

Remember that time zones will cause the hours of the day to be relatively the same because it divides the world into 24 sections. This makes your question, in relation to time zones, nearly irrelevant. Now, questions about where gets darker sooner, etc. become much more relevant when it comes to the degrees north and south of the equator, in other words, the closer to the poles, the sooner the sun will set in the winter. This is why there are 6-month long nights in the extreme north, because the sun never rises in those extreme parts. Slightly further south, the sun will rise for maybe an hour.

So, between Iceland and Greenland, the answer would be Greenland as it extends much further north than iceland and so would get dark much sooner.

Answer 2

When it's winter in the Northern hemisphere it's dark all the time on the North Pole. Places that are near the North Pole are dark most of the time, but may get daylight for a couple of hours. The closer you are to the North Pole in winter, the earlier it gets dark.

The same applies for the Southern hemisphere when it's winter there (note that when it's winter in the Northern hemisphere it's summer in the Southern hemisphere and vice versa).

Greenland is partly within the arctic circle, so in the north it gets dark very early (or maybe there is no daylight at all in winter). The south of Greenland is further south than Iceland, so it gets dark a little later there than in Iceland.

Answer 3

From October to March the North Pole it is darker and the remaining months it is the south pole that is darker. By that I mean it is dark the whole time so they technically get darker before anywhere else.

Answer 4

i think they are in the same time zone