{"id":3233,"date":"2017-04-30T09:53:16","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T07:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ripan.se\/en\/kiruna\/midnattssol\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T09:31:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:31:56","slug":"midnight-sun-in-kiruna","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ripan.se\/en\/kiruna\/midnight-sun-in-kiruna\/","title":{"rendered":"Midnight Sun in Kiruna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>When can I see the midnight sun?<br \/>\n<\/strong>The midnight sun glows in our sky from the last week in May until mid-July. During this period, it never slides below the horizon. The sun is at its lowest at the time 00:40. So the sun is up continuously for around 50 days at <em>Kiruna\u2019s<\/em> latitude. The periods prior to and following that of the midnight sun are also very bright. This is why we usually talk about having 100 days without night in Kiruna.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where should I stand to best see the\u00a0<\/strong><strong>midnight sun?<br \/>\n<\/strong>The midnight sun is the same sun seen during daytime, it just doesn\u2019t go below the horizon.\u00a0This means that you don\u2019t see a rapid sunset and sunrise.\u00a0This phenomenon can be experienced anywhere in Kiruna. You\u2019ll get a really nice view if you follow the <em>Midnight Sun Trail<\/em>\u00a0starting from camp ripan up to the mountain <em>Luossavaara.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When can I see the midnight sun? The midnight sun glows in our sky from the last week in May until mid-July. During this period, it never slides below the horizon. The sun is at its lowest at the time 00:40. So the sun is up continuously for around 50 days at Kiruna\u2019s latitude. The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9362,"parent":1030,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3233","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripan.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripan.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripan.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripan.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripan.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3233"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ripan.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21937,"href":"https:\/\/ripan.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3233\/revisions\/21937"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripan.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripan.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripan.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}