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Originally Posted by Kalinouski
Wow, imagine living in Northern Norway during wintertime. Must be depressing as hell.
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Far Northern Europe
36 Rovaniemi
28.2 Bodo
21 Kiruna
11 Tromso
7.7 Murmansk
0 Jan Mayen, Novaya Zemlya, Svalbard, etc
At least you get to see the northern lights. And northern Europe actually gets less sunny the further east you go. Saint Petersburg and Moscow are pretty dismal for their latitude.
Sunshine hours comparison, Nov-Jan, similar latitudes
North East Europe
122 Gomel
110 Kaunas
105 Turku
102 Klaipeda
101 Helsinki
99 Kaliningrad
97 Riga
96 Minsk
95 Vilnius
83 Moscow
80 Tallinn
60 Oulu
50 Saint Petersburg
31 Arkhangelsk
North Central Europe
155 Berlin
151 Aarhus
147 Copenhagen
140 Rostock
136 Oslo
134 Malmo
132 Hamburg
126 Stavanger
123 Gothenburg
122 Stockholm
112 Odense
96 Trondheim
62 Lulea
58 Bergen
North West Europe
187 London
183 Dublin
177 Aberdeen
176 Edinburgh
176 Newcastle
159 Manchester
128 Belfast
126 Glasgow
120 Inverness
104 Kirkwall (Orkney Islands)
91 Torshavn (Faroe Islands)
86 Lerwick (Shetland Islands)
75 Reykjavik
22 Akureyri
Northwestern North America is much more sunny than anywhere in Europe at a similar latitude though.
284 Edmonton
238 Cold Lake
230 Grande Prairie
228 Slave Lake
215 Anchorage
205 Fort McMurray
197 Fort St John
161 Fairbanks
144 Prince George
129 Fort Smith
118 Yellowknife
115 Prince Rupert
110 Whitehorse
57 Norman Wells
Even Prince Rupert which gets almost 900mm of rain during those three months fares better than comparable latitudes in eastern Europe like Moscow and Vilnius.
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