The view on Drottninggatan about 3.30 in the afternoon.
It is dark now about 3 in the afternoon. That is way too early for me or really for anyone to live with. But I deal with it. OK, maybe I do complain about it a lot, but this is where I live, so I have to deal with it as does everyone else who lives in close proximity to the north pole this time of year. Not being from Stockholm, what is interesting to me is how people live with and adapt to the dark here.
Adults and kids alike wear reflectors of all shapes – hearts, ghosts, cars, bears, skulls and more – attached to their jackets, purses, backpacks and prams so they can be seen on the dark streets.
A close-up of the cool chandelier lights on Drottninggatan.
And everywhere, there are candles, lamps and holiday lights in the windows, on the streets and outside of stores and restaurants. As I walk down my street, just about every window I pass has some sort of holiday light or candles in the window. It helps enormously. And I absolutely love the new holiday lights along Drottninggatan – the main shopping street – that are in the shape of giant chandeliers. They are so perfectly Swedish.
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Hi Sandra, I’m assuming that by March the sunrise will be a little later and I won’t have to worry about sunset at such an earlier hour. I’m guessing 5-6pm? James
James, No worries! It will be much better then and getting better every day that you are here as the light changes so rapidly at that time of year! Literally it will go from setting about 5.30 at the beginning of March to about 7.30 by the end of March.
Hello Sandra, Nice blog. I love reading about exotic places. By extension, do you have sunlight till late in the night in Stockholm during summers?
Thanks for reading and your nice comments Tabrez. In summer, the sky never goes completely dark, but rather into a prolonged twilight. The sun is up in full around 3 am.
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