21 Days of Non-Stop Polar Night Underway For Skiers in Lapland

The sun set for the last time in 2020 on the ski slopes of Levi. Finland’s largest ski centre, today at 12.32 local time. The next sunrise we be next year, in three weeks’ time on the 1st of January 2021 at 12.05.

“We don’t live completely in the darkness during the polar night, the brightest hours of the day take place between 10.00 and 13.00, and around them we’ll enjoy the atmospheric blue light moments!” a spokesperson for the resort explained.

Ski areas are opening across Scandinavia for the 20-21 season. All of Finland’s leading ski areas have opened and in fact Levi has been open for more than two months already, hosting World Cup competitions last month.

All of the region’s ski areas have their slopes floodlit and many are actually open for longer days than resorts in the Alps, which rely on winter daylight.

Although Scandinavian ski areas have limited December daylight, thew payback is long daytime hours by springtime. Riksgransen, located well within the Arctic Circle in Northern Sweden is famously open for skiing and boarding under the midnight sun in May when it has 24-hour daylight.