Day and Night World Map

The map below shows the current position of the Sun and indicates which parts of the Earth are in day and which are in night.

Map notes

• The day and night parts of the Earth shown are as of Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 22:34:00 UTC.
• The Sun's position is marked with this symbol:. At this location, the Sun will be at its zenith (directly overhead) in relation to an observer.
• The Moon's position is marked with this symbol:. At this location, the Moon will be at its zenith in relation to an observer. Note that the symbol is not showing the current phase of the Moon.
• Different shades of darkness are used to indicate night; these shades are in order from lightest to darkest:
  • Civil Twilight (lightest shade)
  • Nautical Twilight
  • Astronomical Twilight
  • Night, no twilight (darkest)
• Latitude circles
  • NPC – Northern Polar Circle, or Arctic Circle, is at latitude 66°34' N. At locations north of the Arctic Circle, the Sun is visible all day and night during a period before and after the June solstice.
  • NT – Northern Tropic, or Tropic of Cancer, is at latitude 23°26' N and is the northernmost latitude at which the Sun can be directly overhead (this occurs during June solstice, around June 21).
  • ST – Southern Tropic, or Tropic of Capricorn, is at latitude 23°26' S S and is the southernmost latitude at which the Sun can be directly overhead (this occurs during December solstice, around December 21).
  • SPC – Southern Polar Circle, or Antarctic Circle, is at latitude 66°34' S. South of this latitude, the Sun is visible all day and night during summer in the Southern Hemisphere.
• Map is generated based on images from NASA

Position of the Sun

During the next hour, the Sun's position relative to Earth's surface will move in an westerly direction by 14° 59' 58" longitude and in a southerly direction by 0° 00' 44" latitude.

The average ground speed of the movement is currently 444.77 meters/second, 1601.2 km/hour, 994.9 miles/hour or 864.6 knots.

Locations with the Sun near zenith

Location	Local time	Distance			Direction
Cook Islands - Rarotonga	Sat 12:34 PM	585 km	363 miles	316 nm	SSE
Niue - Alofi	Sat 11:34 AM	828 km	514 miles	447 nm	WSW
American Samoa - Pago Pago	Sat 11:34 AM	908 km	564 miles	490 nm	WNW
Samoa - Apia	Sat 11:34 AM	1032 km	641 miles	557 nm	WNW
Tokelau - Tokelau - Fakaofo	Sat 12:34 PM	1229 km	764 miles	664 nm	NW
France - Tahiti - Papeete	Sat 12:34 PM	1388 km	863 miles	750 nm	E
Tonga - Nukualofa	Sun 11:34 AM	1425 km	885 miles	769 nm	WSW
Wallis and Futuna - Mata-Utu	Sun 10:34 AM	1506 km	936 miles	813 nm	WNW
Kiribati - Phoenix Islands - Rawaki	Sun 11:34 AM	1750 km	1088 miles	945 nm	NNW
Fiji - Suva	Sun 10:34 AM	2028 km	1260 miles	1095 nm	W

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