White Nights – St. Petersburg

The phenomenon known as the “White Nights” is well known in Russia and in no other Northern city have they received such poetic and literary acclaim. What can be more romantic than a walk along the banks of the city’s rivers and canals in almost broad daylight, no matter what the time of day, even at 2 am? No other major European city can rival this experience nor the atmosphere on the streets of St. Petersburg, especially during the summer months – lively, friendly, romantic and bustling with people throughout the night as well as the day! This is the time of year where the locals energise and save up for the darker winter months in darkness, apart from when the snow lights up.

From late May to early July the nights are bright in St Petersburg, with the brightest period, the White Nights, normally lasting from June 11^th to July 2^nd. The White Nights also known as “Beliye Nochi” are a curious phenomenon caused by St. Petersburg’s northerly geographical location – at 59 degrees 57′ North (roughly on the same latitude as Oslo, Norway, the southern tip of Greenland and Seward, Alaska). St. Petersburg is the world’s most northern city with a population over 1 million, and its location at such a high latitude that the sun does not descend below the horizon enough for the sky to grow dark. In fact night becomes curiously indistinguishable from day, so much so that the authorities never need to turn the city’s streetlights on!

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