https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/20/us/how-to-survive-winter.html
The great irony of winter is that the moment darkness is greatest is also the moment light is about to return. Each year the winter solstice comes with the promise that the next day will be brighter.
In Ka Lae, Hawaii, the southernmost point in the country, it will last exactly 13 hours.
The longest night of all is hundreds of miles north of the Arctic Circle, at the northernmost tip of the country. In Utqiagvik, Alaska, the sun set in November, buried beneath the horizon, not to rise for 65 nights. And even here, one of the remotest places on earth, the coronavirus is spreading.