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This would have to be a really fun thing to try at midnight with a car or caravan.
Basically, for several hours in and around midnight or 1AM, there should be long periods where a difference a few hundred km, or a gain in altitude, means seeing sun vs a twilight sky.
If you climb high enough, the atmospheric refraction will allow you to see the sun's low glare which is so low to the horizon it can go through a person's legs.
Even more magical is how long the low angle of sun stagnates. (Hours before and after midnight, and for a period ranging from Early June till mid-July.
Both the change in solar elevation angle from noon to midnight, and the change in the sun's solar elevation in the sky at noon between summer and winter, follow a very similar pattern of stagnation around the max and mins based on a sine relationship where equinox and 6pm are most quick sun rates of change, and noon, midnight, and solstices are stagnant kodak moments.
Note: Only for the tropics and lower mid-latitudes the noon to midnight change of sun solar elevation angle becomes a hybrid of a linear relationship and a sine relationship, with the linear relationship more prevalent when the sun is very high in the sky. Equator on equinox is the exception the solar elevation angle is a completely linear relationship along the equator line from noon to midnight.
If noon marks solar noon, as in
12pm = 90 degrees in the sky
1pm = 75
2pm = 60
3pm = 45
4pm = 30
5pm = 15 above horizon
6pm = sunset (assuming no atmospheric refraction)
6:05= true sunset
So for Finland 11pm to 2AM, June 5th to July 9th-ish, latitude 64.5, clear sky, mountainous terrain, pretty cool experience.
For the guy who posts on here from Finland, have you tried this? Are there drives for doing this to take photos?