Sun position in Antananarivo

Sun times in Antananarivo on 4 November 2026

Times are computed for -18.9137°, 47.5361° and refreshed every day. For any other date, an exact azimuth or a shadow drawn on the map, open the interactive sun position map for Antananarivo.

The sun’s path over Antananarivo

How high the sun stands and where, from sunrise to sunset: today, at both solstices and at the equinox. The higher a curve climbs, the higher the sun; where a curve meets the bottom line, the sun rises or sets at that compass bearing.

The sun through the year in Antananarivo

At the December solstice the midday sun reaches 85.5° above the horizon in Antananarivo and the day lasts 13 h 16 min. At the June solstice the sun climbs only to 47.6° and the day shrinks to 11 h 00 min. That difference is what decides whether a garden, a window or a solar array sees the sun in winter. The noon shadow column gives the length of the shadow of anything one metre tall.

Antananarivo through 2026 at a glance

• From 17 November to 25 January the midday sun stands south of the zenith, and the rest of the year to the north: in Antananarivo even a south-facing window gets the noon sun for part of the year.
• The sun passes straight overhead at solar noon on 25 January and 17 November: for a moment upright posts, people and buildings cast no shadow at all.
• The earliest sunset is on 4 June, 17 days before the shortest day (21 June), and the latest sunrise on 7 July, 16 days after it. Solar noon drifts through the year, so the darkest afternoon and the darkest morning do not fall on the shortest day.
• The longest day in Antananarivo is 2 h 17 min longer than the shortest, and around the equinoxes the days grow or shrink by up to 1.1 minutes a day.

The winter solstice 2026: the moment, and the shortest and the longest day, city by city →

When the days start getting longer: the earliest sunset, the latest sunrise and lighter evenings, city by city →

Planning around the sun in Antananarivo

Solar panels

At 18.9° S a fixed array facing due north collects the most over a year at a tilt of about 17°. Use the solar panel angle calculator with the coordinates -18.9137°, 47.5361° for the exact optimum, the seasonal optima and the loss from an east or west facing roof.

Buying a flat or a plot

At the June solstice the noon sun in Antananarivo sits 47.6° above the horizon, so every obstacle casts a shadow 0.9 times its own height at midday. Check what stands to the north before you commit: place the building on the map and read the shaded hours for 21 June.

Photography

Golden hour runs 05:08–05:38 in the morning and 17:29–17:59 in the evening today, and the sun sets toward WSW (253°). The golden hour calculator gives the same windows for any date, and the map’s alignment finder shows the days when the setting sun lines up with a street.

More on planning around the sun: which way a house, garden or balcony should face, how long golden hour lasts and why the earliest sunset comes before the shortest day.

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On the same latitude

Antananarivo lies at 18.9° S. On the same parallel the longest and the shortest day last just as long and the noon sun climbs just as high, whatever the clocks say there:

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