Alaskan town sees last sunset until August, faces months of daylight

A town in Alaska just saw its last sunset for 84 days.

On Saturday, May 9, in Utqiagvik, Alaska, the northernmost city in the United States, the sun rose and won't set again until 2:57 a.m. local time on Aug. 2, according to the National Weather Service.

That means the city will experience daylight for nearly three months.

Once the 84 days are up, the town will not immediately go dark. Instead, the sun will stay close enough to the horizon to keep true nighttime darkness from appearing, and it will look more like twilight, AccuWeather explained. True nighttime darkness won't appear until Sept. 21, nearly two months after the first sunset.

Because of the town's location on the Arctic Ocean, it experiences "dramatic swings" in daylight throughout the year, according to AccuWeather.