99% of the world's population gets daylight on this day

2024-07-23 2024-07-23T08:18:26Z

Weather of Arabia - According to the title, there is a day during the year when most of the people living on Earth, approximately 99% of the population, get sunlight during the day, or before sunrise and the stages of twilight and dusk before nightfall completely, and some may think that this moment, Or this day is the summer solstice (the summer solstice this year was on June 20, 2024) in which the northern half of the Earth receives the largest and longest amount of sunlight, but we will talk about another day.

The day humans get daylight

What is special about July 8th every year? Last Monday, July 8, 2024, at 11:14 UTC, approximately 99% of the world’s population was under direct sunlight, or through the light gradient in the stages of twilight and dusk when the sun is below the horizon, but its rays are still lighting up the sky, while... The rest are the inhabitants of Australia, New Zealand, parts of Southeast Asia and Antarctica in the dark of night (this depends on the world's population increasing day by day). It is a unique moment without a doubt! The scientific explanation for this phenomenon: At this time on July 8 of each year and between 11:00 and 11:15 UTC, according to a study conducted by the timeanddate website, most of the populated areas in the world are facing the sun, and in the daytime phase or twilight and dusk, which means Daylight spreads after the sun descends below the horizon, regardless of the strength or weakness of the illumination, as dawn begins on the western coasts of North America while dusk is still visible in the regions of East and Southeast Asia. This includes most of the continent of Asia and certainly the largest countries in terms of population such as China. And India, which has the preponderance of obtaining daylight, in addition to Europe, Africa, North America, and South America, and because the sun moves slightly towards the south after reaching its northern peak at the time of the summer solstice, with this movement it adds to the areas of day and dusk millions of residents in Southeast Asia in countries with High population density. The picture shows how daylight (the sun), dusk (the beginning of the night), and twilight (the beginning of the day) are distributed on that day.

Image above shows areas receiving daylight on July 8, 2024 at 1114 UTC. If we were to calculate the number of people who actually receive sunlight above the horizon during the day, excluding twilight and dusk areas, the percentage would be about 93% of the world’s population of approximately 8 billion people, according to the latest statistics. Is July 8 the only day on which this phenomenon occurs? According to studies, there are about 60 days during the year in which more than 99% of people (rounded to the nearest percentage and according to the current population of the world) get daylight for a few minutes during the day, and these days extend from May 18 until approximately mid-July of each year. A year, including July 8 and the date of the summer solstice as well, with slight differences in proportions and timing, and the daily peak approaches 11:00 UTC.