Freezing weather and long nights getting you down? Got the post-Christmas blues?
Never fear - the days are officially getting longer, and it's only a matter of time until it doesn’t get dark until after 5pm.
Days have slowly been getting longer since the winter solstice on December 21, when the North Pole is tilted farthest away from the sun.
And while it’s not great getting to and leaving the office in near darkness, in just over a month that will no longer be an issue, with the sun due to set after 5pm in London by February 8.
According to experts, it will then take another five weeks for the sun to set after 6pm, with sunset times creeping back by nearly two minutes a day.
By March 29th, London will get even lighter when the clocks go forward, and we revert to British Summer Time.
It’s basically spring already, right?
Builder William Willett first proposed daylight saving time in 1907 - legend has it that he was annoyed that sunsets were interrupting his games of golf, so he campaigned for the change.
For Londoners in 2026, we’re just waiting for the end of the gloom and the drizzle, and a pint outside the pub in the sun again.
