Sunset Direction From My Location

I’m lucky to have a good view to the west, since i love to watch sunsets. Non members can search 7,954 locations from 242 countries worldwide. In general, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west because of the earth’s eastward spin.

Irrespective of where you are on the globe, the sun will always rise exactly east and set exactly west on two days: This site displays the time and direction of sunrise and sunrise on google map. The various trajectories of the sun’s in the sky are bounded by those of the 21st day (solstice) of each month from december 21 until june 21.

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Type an address into the search field, or pan, drag the marker in the map to a location of interest. Click on the map or search to choose a new location. The angular difference between the direction of sunrise and due east, and the direction of sunset and due west is called the sun's amplitude. After verifying the new terrain profile below, you can proceed to the full sunlight analysis with sun curves for different dates, a sunrise and sunset calendar for your location, and many other stats, including the average cloud cover for each.