On Tuesday , December 6 , at 7:56 Prime Minister UTC , most of the earth ’s population will look up and see a sky that is altogether dark . lease ’s explicate .
We ( well , unless you happen to be a categorical - Earther who believes the Dominicus rotates around above our heads like a tennis ball on the end of a Swingball circle ) are pretty used to the idea that while one side of the Earth is lit up , the other is plunge into dark . We ’re also used to the idea of the days being shorter in winter in our hemisphere , and longer in the summer . What we really struggle with , apparently , is population density .
You might expect most hoi polloi on Earth to be in dark during the shortest day of the class ( 21 December in the northern cerebral hemisphere , June 20 or 21 in the southerly hemisphere ) . However , using population data from the Center for International Earth Science Information internet at Columbia University , as well as their own Sunday information , timeandate.comwas able-bodied to wreak out the time at which the most people across the world will be in swarthiness .
" consort to our deliberation , the moment of maximum swarthiness pass off on Tuesday , December 6 , 2022 , at 19:56 , " they publish on their website .
" At that instant , the sky will be completely dark-skinned for about 85.92 percent of the world ’s universe as the night reigns across the three most thickly settled continent : Asia , Africa , and Europe ( with very minor exceptions ) . "
During this prison term , the Americas , New Zealand and Australia will be in sun . However , since these places are sparsely populated ( compared to say , China or India ) the vast majority of the world ’s universe will be in the dark .
The squad point out there are two other dates this calendar month where it will experience like night prison term for the most people ( those being December 21 and December 27 ) . However , on those days a deal of people will be in what is know as " astronomical twilight " , where the sun has dipped below the horizon at about12 - 18 degreesbut some sun ( however faint ) still nominate it to them . Using the strict definition of nighttime , the heavy number of people will be in it at 19:56 UTC tonight .
