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To better accommodate your needs, the Rainbow has requested that all Accessible Ticketing requests be solicited only through their representatives. Please contact a Rainbow representative for further help with your ticket purchase.* Advance ticket purchase may be required. * Box office information is subject to change.

Rainbow - ADA hours:

Monday to Thursday 14:00 - 23:00 Friday 14:00 - 03:00 Saturday 14:00 - LATE Sunday 14:00 - 00:00

Reviews and news for “Rainbow”

• Birmingham Hospice’s Rainbow Rush returns to help more local families  B31 Voices
  
• Birmingham’s ‘rainbow’ coalition leaves Labour and Reform UK in opposition  TransportXtra
  
• How the 2026 ‘rainbow’ election flipped Birmingham City Council on its head  The Bromsgrove Standard
  
• Did you see the rainbow over Birmingham yesterday? [PHOTOS]  Bham Now
  
• Rainbow Venues licence revoked after teen deaths  BBC
  

A rainbow is an optical phenomenon caused by refraction, internal reflection and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a continuous spectrum of light appearing in the sky. The rainbow takes the form of a multicoloured circular arc. Rainbows caused by sunlight always appear in the section of sky directly opposite the sun. Rainbows can be caused by many forms of airborne water. These include not only rain, but also mist, spray, and airborne dew.

Rainbows can be full circles. However, the observer typically sees only an arc formed by illuminated droplets above the ground, and centred on a line from the Sun to the observer's eye.

In a primary rainbow, the arc shows red on the outer part and violet on the inner side. This rainbow is caused by light being refracted when entering a droplet of water, then reflected inside on the back of the droplet and refracted again when leaving it.

In a double rainbow, a second arc is seen about 10° outside the primary arc. Its colours are perceived to be in reverse order, with red on the lower side of the arc.

The Guinness World Records holder of the longest-lasting rainbow observed was 8 hours 58 minutes in the Yangmingshan range of Taipei, Taiwan in November 2017.

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