We study the light people live in.Neonsol makes Sol, and publishes what the numbers say about daylight.

A year of daylight in New York: a band of blue day edged in orange and violet, stepping up and down on the two days the clocks change. — A year of daylight. Each column is one day, with midnight at the top and bottom. A color is the sky's at that minute, and a cliff is a day the clocks change. Move across the picture to read a day.

Reports.Worked out from the sun's place and every city's clock, and free to quote.

A year of daylight in New York on permanent daylight saving time.

Permanent daylight saving time, state by state

The House passed it 308 to 117. In Boise the sun would rise as late as 9:18 AM.

A world map of places colored by how far their clocks are from the sun.

How far your clock is from the sun

In Seville the sun is highest at 2:30 PM in July. A map of 158,876 places.

The earliest sunsets in America

Spokane, WA: 3:58 PM this winter. Every state, ranked.

A year of daylight in Madrid, its evenings long and late.

The cities with the most daylight after work

Madrid gets 768 hours a year. Recife gets 99.

We make Sol.

Weather apps tell you if it will rain. Sol tells you when the light is worth stepping outside for: a forecast for tonight's sunset, the whole sky on one clock, and two daily games. It is free on the web, and coming soon to iPhone.

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Sol's Sky tab at dusk in New York, the glow arching up from the horizon.

Use our numbers.

Every figure here is free to use with credit. Reporters can start with the press page. The tables are on the data page as CSV.

Figures are for calendar 2027 unless a heading says otherwise, worked out with NOAA's solar equations and the IANA time zone database (version 2026e) at each place's coordinates from GeoNames. Sunrise and sunset put the sun's center 0.833° below a flat horizon, so hills move a real place by minutes. Download the figures.