Destinations Where You Can Experience the Midnight Sun

Imagine finishing dinner, stepping outside at midnight and finding the landscape glowing as though sunset has simply forgotten to arrive. In the far north, this is not a trick of photography but one of Earth's most extraordinary seasonal phenomena. The midnight sun occurs when the Earth's tilt leaves regions inside the Arctic or Antarctic Circles facing the Sun for an extended period. Northern Norway , Finnish Lapland , Iceland and Svalbard are among the most accessible places to experience it, although the length and intensity of daylight vary considerably.