Sun position in Belo Horizonte

Sun times in Belo Horizonte on 4 November 2026

Times are computed for -19.9208°, -43.9378° 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 Belo Horizonte.

The sun’s path over Belo Horizonte

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 Belo Horizonte

At the December solstice the midday sun reaches 86.5° above the horizon in Belo Horizonte and the day lasts 13 h 20 min. At the June solstice the sun climbs only to 46.6° and the day shrinks to 10 h 56 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.

Belo Horizonte through 2026 at a glance

• From 21 November to 20 January the midday sun stands south of the zenith, and the rest of the year to the north: in Belo Horizonte even a south-facing window gets the noon sun for part of the year.
• The sun passes straight overhead at solar noon on 20 January and 21 November: for a moment upright posts, people and buildings cast no shadow at all.
• The earliest sunset is on 5 June, 16 days before the shortest day (21 June), and the latest sunrise on 6 July, 15 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 Belo Horizonte is 2 h 25 min longer than the shortest, and around the equinoxes the days grow or shrink by up to 1.2 minutes a day.

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

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Planning around the sun in Belo Horizonte

Solar panels

At 19.9° S a fixed array facing due north collects the most over a year at a tilt of about 18°. Use the solar panel angle calculator with the coordinates -19.9208°, -43.9378° 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 Belo Horizonte sits 46.6° 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 05:13–05:43 in the morning and 17:36–18:06 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

Belo Horizonte lies at 19.9° 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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