Sun position in San Salvador

Sun times in San Salvador on 3 November 2026

Times are computed for 13.6893°, -89.1872° 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 San Salvador.

The sun’s path over San Salvador

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 San Salvador

At the June solstice the midday sun reaches 80.3° above the horizon in San Salvador and the day lasts 12 h 56 min. At the December solstice the sun climbs only to 52.9° and the day shrinks to 11 h 19 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.

San Salvador through 2026 at a glance

• From 26 April to 15 August the midday sun stands north of the zenith, and the rest of the year to the south: in San Salvador even a north-facing window gets the noon sun for part of the year.
• The sun passes straight overhead at solar noon on 26 April and 16 August: for a moment upright posts, people and buildings cast no shadow at all.
• The longest day in San Salvador is 1 h 37 min longer than the shortest, and around the equinoxes the days grow or shrink by up to 0.8 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 San Salvador

Solar panels

At 13.7° N a fixed array facing due south collects the most over a year at a tilt of about 14°. Use the solar panel angle calculator with the coordinates 13.6893°, -89.1872° 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 San Salvador sits 52.9° above the horizon, so every obstacle casts a shadow 0.8 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 05:52–06:21 in the morning and 16:59–17:29 in the evening today, and the sun sets toward WSW (254°). 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

San Salvador lies at 13.7° 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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