This is completely unrelated to this post but just as you signed off I found a site with sunrise/sunset calendars for major cities so I present to you a comparison:
Basically, the more south you go... the shorter the day actually is! And now that I've had the time to think through it, I'm very positive that it has to do with the tilt of the Earth. I don't know how to completely explain it with words so have a crude diagram:
Forgive the slightly inaccurate angle, placement, scale, etc. Look at the sun rays I drew. Notice how the top and bottom ones are longer than the middle ones? Because they're longer, those regions stay in sunlight longer during the summer. Or something like that. During the winter it's the opposite - I checked, and the more south locations do have longer days than the north locations, which also fits.
And I just thought through all of that without googling or Wikipedia so hopefully I'm not full of shit! :D
Sorry to edit!spam your inbox, but I just thought of something: of course my drawing isn't completely accurate, so in actuality it's not because of BOTH lines being like that, because during our summer the Arctic is in constant daytime while Antartica is in constant night. But this still makes sense, because of the season change from the north and south hemisphere. The majority of the sun's rays hit the north hemisphere during our summer, so just completely discard what I said about both lines. lol. And no, I still haven't looked at Wikipedia yet. haha.
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Basically, the more south you go... the shorter the day actually is! And now that I've had the time to think through it, I'm very positive that it has to do with the tilt of the Earth. I don't know how to completely explain it with words so have a crude diagram:
Forgive the slightly inaccurate angle, placement, scale, etc. Look at the sun rays I drew. Notice how the top and bottom ones are longer than the middle ones? Because they're longer, those regions stay in sunlight longer during the summer. Or something like that. During the winter it's the opposite - I checked, and the more south locations do have longer days than the north locations, which also fits.
And I just thought through all of that without googling or Wikipedia so hopefully I'm not full of shit! :D
Sorry to edit!spam your inbox, but I just thought of something: of course my drawing isn't completely accurate, so in actuality it's not because of BOTH lines being like that, because during our summer the Arctic is in constant daytime while Antartica is in constant night. But this still makes sense, because of the season change from the north and south hemisphere. The majority of the sun's rays hit the north hemisphere during our summer, so just completely discard what I said about both lines. lol. And no, I still haven't looked at Wikipedia yet. haha.