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Every place on Earth, when averaged out over a year, gets 6 months of daylight and 6 months of darkness.

At the equator this daylight and darkness is spaced out in about 12 hour intervals (day and night). However, because of the tilt of the Earth's axis of spin, as one move towards the poles the length of night and day changes with the seasons until when you reach the poles, daylight lasts for 6 continual months and darkness lasts for 6 continual months.

Alaska is near the North pole, so during summer the days are very long.

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