# Can Someone Please Explain This To Me (Sunrise/Sunset Direction)

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 12, 2017, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-please-explain-this-to-me-sunrise-sunset-direction/788806 "2017-06-12T21:03:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-please-explain-this-to-me-sunrise-sunset-direction/788806/21 "2017-06-14T18:30:06Z")

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There’s a nice app here that will show you the path of the sun across the sky for any location and time of year.

> **[Calculation of sun’s position in the sky for each location on the earth at...](https://www.sunearthtools.com/dp/tools/pos_sun.php)**
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> Calculation of sun’s position in the sky for each location on the earth at any time of day. Azimuth, sunrise sunset noon, daylight and graphs of the solar path.

I like the circular graph a little way down the page, where the path of the sun at different times of year is shown on the same graph. For temperate latitudes in the N hemishpere:

In winter, rises and sets in SE/SW  
Equinoxes - due E and due W  
Summer - NE/NW

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