At this time of year the UK technically never gets "fully dark", this becomes more apparent the further north you go. See technically we have 3 types of twilight, the period between "night" and "day"
- Civil - still light enough to see without torchlight.
Nautical - Distant objects in siloutte, need artificial light to see. Horizon still visible.
Astro - Sky compltely black at this stage on most nights, though not all stars visible.

At around the end of Civil Twilight is probably what most would call "Dusk" and the end of Nautical Twilight is what many would consider the start of the night ie "Nightfall" as practically all traces of light disappear at this time (unless it's a very clear night).



So the darkest part of the night is currently 1pm in the UK. After 2am it will slowly start to become light again.

Streetlights have now come on here.

Adelle currently performing on Glastonberry at the mo.

Daylight at 10:20pm

Glastonberry: https://goo.gl/photos/FCCKu8oN1EwD93gG9
https://goo.gl/photos/vpys1eMcgQCzFeSx8

Here (Northern England) : https://goo.gl/photos/sp2hge5NFh5d4FB18

Very old television.

Thanks for that I was bought up being told, If you don't know something then ask

Thought someone might mention that, though it's kinda hard to see in the picture. If you have read many of my earlier threads you will know I use old 4:3 tv's in my house. Perfectly Happy with them so don't feel the need to buy new ones

It's been blanket grey skies, rain and temps of about 14 degrees all day here, and now it's getting really dark, it's practically dusk now, still lighter than at Glastonberry though.

Watching yet another live event on tv… England V Iceland.

Yes, it's somewhere further South than me…

Yes, it's dark in France already…

Sun still shining here.

Imagine if they played the game at Iceland instead, they could play at midnight and still not need floodlights. It doesn't go dark there at all during June. Sun never dips more than one degree below the horizon.

http://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/iceland/reykjavik

First sunny evening in a while, a darn site brighter than last night at this time. Sun still up.

Same here, pretty much bright to 11pm although the clouds affect it.

Wow.. Have England forgotten how to play football...?

Not receiving passes, giving the ball away, balls passed to nowhere.. What's going on???

Yes, England have lost to Iceland 2-1, which has a population of just 300,000.
England manager resigned just now as well.

Possibly the worst England defeat in history.

The most pathetic display in English football history.

Useless bastards,

Abject, gutless, embarrassing.

Vastly overpaid, vastly overrated primadonna *****.

I was actually voting for Iceland after the first half as England were so pitiful - they could have lost 4-1 (at least).

They were magnificent.

Well done to the Vikings - a country the size of Hull in the quarters - what a wonderful achievement!

Sunset tonight is 10:10pm. I think this is a reasonable time but unfortunately due to cloud it hasn't been a common occurrence recently.

This is my approx times today

Sunrise: 5:00
Sunset: 10:10

I found this app the other day. Very interesting to see mean solar times against the current time.
http://www.localdaylighttime.org/

I am heading up to Shetland tomorrow, lucky me
Sunrise 03:51 Sunset 22:22
Love the summer nights in Scotland some nights especially if it's been a sunny day the sky doesn't even go dark it just goes a light blue. Wonderful x

Depending on your location across the UK and Republic of Ireland it isnt proper night. We are in a period of twilight ranging from civil up in shetland to astro in plymouth. But from now on the day length starts to decrease.

Since coming back from America, I have noticed that the middle part of the night is a lot darker than it was before I left.

Sun's still up. Great!

Ha! Sunrise is still 4:46 here!

Won't get as late as 5am until another two weeks here.

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Today in leicester it dont get no darker than astronomical twilight.

Will be like it til july 26th

Always thought that when the sun went down it was night. But nope not according to astronomers.

Why would you want the sun up before 5?

It's always 30 minutes or so after sunset before it starts to get dark. So here it's starting to get dark now.

31st July is last day of astro twilight all night here.

Lets get this straight.

At the moment the sun is up. Depending on your location. Sunset follows. We then go through civil,nautical and astronomical twillight to get to proper night which isnt until july 27th in leicester. And only then its for the briefest of time. But it does start to get longer.

Leading up to sunrise. Night ends then we go through astronomical,nautical and civil dawn to get to sunrise.

Last night jersey had what is classed by astonomers as proper night for about 21 minutes