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Suomessa kesäyöt ovat valoisia, eikä kesällä napapiirin pohjoispuolella ole yöstä tietoakaan.
Summer nights are light in Finland, and during summers, places north of the Arctic Circle do not even have nights.
Usage notes
The concepts ilta(“evening”) and yö(“night”) are defined slightly differently in Finnish and English. yö(“night”) is generally regarded as the period of day normally devoted for sleeping (i.e. roughly the time between 10/11 p.m. and 6/7 a.m.). The time between 5/6 p.m. and 10/11 p.m. is referred to as ilta, but in English it is often called night (e.g. "I have a meeting tonight").
If used in a compound with a day of the week, the term will refer to the night at the beginning of that day. For example, the term tiistaiyö(literally “Tuesday night”) will refer to the hours from approximately 23:00 (11 p.m.) Monday to 06:00 (6 a.m.) Tuesday, which in standard English would be referred to as Monday night (even though Tuesday technically begins during this period).
“yö”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04
Tatjana Boiko (2019) “yö”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN