page_title: Finnmark
section_title: Midnight sun
hierarchical_section_title: Finnmark / Climate / Midnight sun
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Vadsø in Nordnorwegen von dem Hurtigruten-Schiff MS Finnmark aus in der Morgendämmerung. Links der Mast ist Ankermast der Polarexpeditionen von Umberto Nobile 1926.
context_page_description: Finnmark is a former county in the northern part of Norway. It was dissolved on 1 January 2020 when it was merged with the neighboring county of Troms to form the new Troms og Finnmark county.
  By land, it bordered Troms county to the west, Finland to the south, and Russia to the east, and by water, the Norwegian Sea to the northwest, and the Barents Sea to the north and northeast.
  The county was formerly known as Finmarkens amt or Vardøhus amt. Starting in 2002, it had two official names: Finnmark and Finnmárku. It was part of the Sápmi region, which spans four countries, as well as the Barents Region, and is the largest and least populated county of Norway.
  Situated at the northernmost part of continental Europe, where the Norwegian coastline swings eastward, Finnmark is an area "where East meets West," in culture as well as in nature and geography. Vardø, the easternmost municipality in Norway, is located farther east than the cities of St. Petersburg and Istanbul.
context_section_description: Situated far north of the Arctic Circle, Finnmark has midnight sun from the middle of May until late July.  Conversely, in two months of the winter, from late November to late January, the county experiences polar nights where the sun is always below the horizon. As a consequence, there is continuous daylight from early May to early August. At midwinter, there is only a bluish twilight for a couple of hours around noon, which can almost reach full daylight if there are clear skies to the south.
caption: Sunrise at 07:33 in February; Vadsø
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