[wakeneddreamer]

Doesn't everywhere on earth get pretty much 50% daylight hours and 50% nighttime hours over the course of the year (mountain vs. valley may change that very slightly)? It's just the distribution over the course of the year that's different.

Now if you meant sunshine instead of daylight I might agree with you.

:-p

[quickthrower2]

You are correct. I am probably using the wrong words.

I saw something once on wikipedia showing more sunlight (sunshine?) hours in one place than another. So I am guessing they are measuring it based on the sunlight strength being over a certain threshold. It may have taken cloud into consideration.

I think the more important point in terms of mood is winters nearer the poles have daylight hours such that you go to work and come home in the dark, and spend all day indoors, so you don't see much sunlight. Then at the weekend you catch up but again it might just be 8 hours of sunlight and 6 hours of reasonably strong sunlight.

OTOH the long nights in the summer nearer the poles don't do much for me over a reasonable 7-8pm sunset time. If anything it makes it harder to sleep.