International audienceThis article looks at the nocturnal temporalities and nocturnal territorialities of daily practices and uses on Reunion Island. Until now, few social science studies have succeeded in moving away from the large metropolises of the North to look at the nights of tropical urban spaces. In this perspective, one of the basic tasks is to study the place of darkness in the experience and imagination of the Reunionese populations, in the hope that a better knowledge and understanding of nocturnal territorialities could help to consolidate approaches to the protection of the nocturnal environment in the day-to-day planning of the territories. For several decades now, the island has seen its countryside undergo a profound trans...