How day and night occurs ?

Earth takes 23 hours and 56 minutes on average to make a complete rotation with respect to the sun, which adds up to a single day every four years. This is why leap years exist, so the lost day can be made up. Day and night have different lengths throughout the year, depending on the latitude of a particular location and what season it is. For example, summer in the Northern Hemisphere has longer days than nights. At the poles, the days and nights last for six months because they are always pointed either toward or away from the sun.

When a hemisphere of the planet is facing away from the sun, it does not receive sunlight, and night occurs because residual sunlight and heat from the previous period of daylight is being used up. When Earth rotates to bring that hemisphere back into the path of the sun's rays, sunlight once again heats and lights that hemisphere.