{"id":315589,"date":"2025-10-19T08:51:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T08:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/315589\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T08:51:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T08:51:27","slug":"2025-october-30-when-darkness-overtakes-daylight-comparing-anchorage-chicago-and-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/315589\/","title":{"rendered":"2025, October 30: When Darkness Overtakes Daylight: Comparing Anchorage, Chicago, and Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"

October 30, 2025: Darkness grows longer than daylight as autumn progresses. Explore how daylight, twilight, and darkness change from Anchorage to Miami and mark the season\u2019s long nights ahead.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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by Jeffrey L. Hunt<\/p>\n

Chicago, Illinois: Sunrise, 7:21 a.m. CDT; Sunset, 5:47 p.m. CDT.\u00a0 Times are calculated by the US Naval Observatory\u2019s MICA computer program. Check local sources for sunrise and sunset times.<\/p>\n

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Changing Light Patterns<\/p>\n

Holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, specific months, equinoxes, and solstices mark how individuals track the seasons. The autumn equinox opens the gateway to decreasing daylight and increasing nighttime.<\/p>\n

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There is another way to consider the lighting effects of the changing seasons \u2014 by comparing when darkness lasts longer than daylight. Each 24-hour period divides naturally into daytime and nighttime. Simply, when the sun is above the horizon, it\u2019s day; when it\u2019s below, it\u2019s night.<\/p>\n

Nighttime itself can be split into twilight and darkness. During twilight, sunlight shines on the upper atmosphere, producing colorful displays before sunrise and after sunset. At Chicago\u2019s latitude, each twilight lasts about 90 minutes to two hours, longer farther north and shorter toward the southern United States.<\/p>\n

\"Daylight,Chart Caption \u2013 2025-2026: This chart shows the lengths for daylight, darkness, and twilight for Anchorage, Chicago, and Miami. The vertical scale shows a decimal fraction of a 24-hour day.<\/p>\n

Without twilight, darkness takes over \u2014 the sky reaches its natural blackness. Today at Chicago\u2019s latitude, daylight and darkness are equal: 10 hours, 26 minutes. Do not confuse this with the equinox, when daylight and nighttime are nearly equal at 12 hours.<\/p>\n

Beginning tomorrow and continuing through February 10, 2026, darkness is longer than daylight. For 103 days, there is simply no daylight to save \u2014 especially when considering year-round daylight time.<\/p>\n

At this season, daylight is like a child\u2019s blanket on an adult\u2019s bed \u2014 too short to cover the feet and the shoulders at the same time.<\/p>\n

Comparing Cities<\/p>\n

The duration of long darkness varies by latitude. In Miami, Florida, this period lasts 41 days, from November 30, when daylight is 10 hours, 39 minutes, through January 10.
In Anchorage, Alaska, long darkness began October 20 and ends February 21, a span of 124 days. Darkness equals daylight there at 9 hours, 35 minutes, shrinking to 5 hours, 27 minutes at the winter solstice.<\/p>\n

The accompanying chart shows the lengths of daylight, darkness, and twilight for Anchorage, Chicago, and Miami from the autumn equinox (September 22) to the vernal equinox (March 20). The points where the daylight and darkness lines intersect mark where they are equal for each city.<\/p>\n

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