What do you prefer - Early Sunrises or Late Sunsets? (air pollution, beach)
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Location: northern Vermont - previously NM, WA, & MA
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Eye of the beholder. I've marveled at western desert sunsets and sunrises over the Atlantic just the same and couldn't tell you what is more beautiful since they're both spectacular. That said, I'm generally wired to be an early riser and I do appreciate early sunrises as they really are motivating. It's nice to see more daylight and the sun higher in the sky as we approach the coming equinox.
Same here. I wake up at 4:50 AM for work and start work at 6:00 AM. If I had to sit and work in the dark consistently until around 8:00 AM for more and more of the year I would become very depressed. I suppose most voting for later sunsets work a traditional 9-5 schedule or are unemployed/retired.
I would rather come home to daylight than darkness in the winter, especially after working indoors all day.
In the summer where I live it is not usually excessively hot, so sleeping through early morning sunlight (sunrise is at 530 am) seems like a waste of sunshine. Better to shift the clock to have longer evening sunshine.
I once worked for a company that had "summer hours" that shifted starting time earlier so that people could take advantage of more sunshine.
Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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For me early morning is the best time of the day, and more enjoyable if it's light. I get up at 4am on weekdays, and usually by 6am on weekends. Here on the shortest winter days it's dark when I go to work and dark shortly after I get home. Sunrise will be as late as 7:57am, then sunset as early as 4:17pm. Sun is not an issue with our rain and overcast from October-June, but it would be nice to have it light earlier.
I prefer sunlight longer into the day/evening/night.
While I don’t like morning darkness either, much of my outdoor activities are late afternoon, early evening, night time.
Idealistically I can rise no earlier than 7am to sunlight, and, have a nice long warm (80 degrees) day of sunlight, later evening sunset, and just enough overnight rain consistently here and there to keep everything green.
That doesn’t seem like too much to ask year round, lol. But that’s what I like and prefer.
Early sunrise, for sure. And I hate that we are already switching back to Daylight Savings.
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