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I spent four months in Sweden and the darkness was way different than I expected.

For one thing, “day” felt less like “day” in the sense that the sun never fully rose, it just peeked above the horizon for a few hours.

And for another, it was harder than I expected. For the first time in my life, I _felt_ a need for sunshine.

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It is kinda hard when there is no snow so it is really pitch black. Basically October-November sucks and then it gets easier.

That's the big difference between the north of Sweden and the south.

In the north of Sweden the winter is very nice as the snow reflects the light well and makes it a lot brighter, although as you say it's currently dark without snow, which sucks.

But in the south you don't have as much snow, so the winter is mostly a very dark (and wet). The joke goes that there are only two seasons in the south: summer and autumn.

I really do hate snowless winters. The northeastern US has had terribly brown winters lately. I'd rather it be 0C and snowy vs. a relatively mild 10C and brown.

On the contrary, when it does snow in London it's a nightmare, and so I quite like our 5C brown/grey winters.

Yeah, luckily southern Sweden has about 1-2 hours more daylight.

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