Midnight sun

Quality:

Midnight sun - natural phenomenon when daylight lasts for more than 24 hours, occuring only inside or close to the polar circles. Article “Midnight sun” in Simple English Wikipedia has 6.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Midnight sun”, its content was written by 14 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1593 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 45 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3063 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #402 in March 2008
• Global: #1622 in December 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2844 in March 2009
• Global: #7939 in June 2018

There are 44 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Midnight sun		47.0423
2	Chinese (zh) 极昼		42.2327
3	Malay (ms) Matahari tengah malam		35.5444
4	Latin (la) Dies perpetuus		32.1272
5	Tamil (ta) நள்ளிரவுச் சூரியன்		30.936
6	Japanese (ja) 白夜		28.9377
7	Vietnamese (vi) Ban ngày vùng cực		26.5273
8	Basque (eu) Gauerdiko eguzki		24.4144
9	Swedish (sv) Midnattssol		22.5821
10	Romanian (ro) Soarele de la miezul nopții		21.9187

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Midnight sun		7 194 352
2	Spanish (es) Sol de medianoche		2 204 331
3	Japanese (ja) 白夜		1 690 824
4	Portuguese (pt) Sol da meia-noite		1 212 643
5	Russian (ru) Полярный день		1 006 296
6	German (de) Mitternachtssonne		855 882
7	Italian (it) Sole di mezzanotte		841 867
8	French (fr) Jour polaire		747 034
9	Thai (th) ดวงอาทิตย์เที่ยงคืน		327 437
10	Swedish (sv) Midnattssol		325 822

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Midnight sun		29 155
2	Japanese (ja) 白夜		4 416
3	German (de) Mitternachtssonne		3 341
4	Russian (ru) Полярный день		2 577
5	Finnish (fi) Keskiyön aurinko		1 722
6	French (fr) Jour polaire		1 618
7	Chinese (zh) 极昼		1 513
8	Portuguese (pt) Sol da meia-noite		1 169
9	Italian (it) Sole di mezzanotte		1 148
10	Swedish (sv) Midnattssol		952

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Midnight sun		428
2	German (de) Mitternachtssonne		105
3	French (fr) Jour polaire		100
4	Italian (it) Sole di mezzanotte		89
5	Russian (ru) Полярный день		79
6	Spanish (es) Sol de medianoche		68
7	Portuguese (pt) Sol da meia-noite		61
8	Dutch (nl) Middernachtzon		60
9	Japanese (ja) 白夜		55
10	Norwegian (no) Midnattssol		52

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Midnight sun		4
2	Azerbaijani (az) Qütb gündüzləri		1
3	German (de) Mitternachtssonne		1
4	Basque (eu) Gauerdiko eguzki		1
5	Norwegian (no) Midnattssol		1
6	Portuguese (pt) Sol da meia-noite		1
7	Arabic (ar) شمس منتصف الليل		0
8	Belarusian (be) Палярны дзень		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Полярен ден		0
10	Catalan (ca) Sol de mitjanit		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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