Real solar science, calculated for your place, with sources. Sun beliefs from named places and times. Solar symbolism · symbolic, not predictive.

Cool Sun Facts · Your year of the Sun

A whole year of the Sun, where you are

Daylight, where the Sun rises and sets, how high it climbs, Earth's distance and the equation of time, for every day of a year, with the year's equinoxes, solstices, perihelion and aphelion. Worked out in your browser a few days at a time once you choose a place.

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Standard definitions on a level horizon; equinoxes and solstices within a minute or two of the US Naval Observatory's, perihelion and aphelion within a few minutes. How these pages calculate.

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