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> We walked 700km through Norway in the summer

“in the summer” must have helped. In the depth of winter, there’s less than 6 hours between sunrise and sunset in Oslo (https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/norway/oslo?month=12), just over 4 1/2 in Trondheim (https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/norway/trondheim?month=12).

To make matters worse, the sun doesn’t get high in the sky.

There is not much sun in the winter, but that also means there is more sun in summer. The variance is greater, but it averages out.

It's summer for like a month. Living that far north is hellish for most people. It's not just like a colder Seattle or something.

The country lies north of the Northern Tropic, which means that it gets less sun in summer AND significantly less sun in winter.

Less sun intensity but longer days during summer

Ehh, what?

Just because Norway is far north does not mean that it gets less sun all year round. It has more sun in summer, and less in winter.

You can be at the northern most point of mainland Norway now and wait for sunset. But you will have to wait until August. It's been up since May 11.

I wrote that in a rush and was thinking more about the angle, i.e. peak intensity. You get more sun hours, but not that warm.

Which leads to the best raspberries I ever had. Which suprised us a lot.