Sun position in Saint Petersburg

Sun times in Saint Petersburg on 4 November 2026

Times are computed for 59.9386°, 30.3141° 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 Saint Petersburg.

The sun’s path over Saint Petersburg

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 Saint Petersburg

At the June solstice the midday sun reaches 53.5° above the horizon in Saint Petersburg and the day lasts 18 h 51 min. At the December solstice the sun climbs only to 6.6° and the day shrinks to 5 h 53 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.

Saint Petersburg through 2026 at a glance

• At solar noon the sun in Saint Petersburg always stands due south, so the south side of a building, a garden or a roof is the one that gets the sun.
• From 21 April to 20 August the sky over Saint Petersburg never gets fully dark: the sun stays less than 18° below the horizon all night, so there is no true astronomical night.
• The earliest sunset is on 16 December, 5 days before the shortest day (21 December), and the latest sunrise on 27 December, 6 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 Saint Petersburg is 12 h 57 min longer than the shortest, and around the equinoxes the days grow or shrink by up to 5.5 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 Saint Petersburg

Solar panels

At 59.9° N a fixed array facing due south collects the most over a year at a tilt of about 49°. Use the solar panel angle calculator with the coordinates 59.9386°, 30.3141° 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 December solstice the noon sun in Saint Petersburg sits 6.6° above the horizon, so every obstacle casts a shadow 8.6 times its own height at midday. Check what stands to the south before you commit: place the building on the map and read the shaded hours for 21 December.

Photography

Golden hour runs 08:28–09:37 in the morning and 15:46–16:56 in the evening today, and the sun sets toward WSW (239°). 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

Saint Petersburg lies at 59.9° N. 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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• Sun position in TallinnEstonia • 59.4° N

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