Sun position in Tallinn

Sun times in Tallinn on 12 November 2026

Times are computed for 59.437°, 24.7536° 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 Tallinn.

The sun’s path over Tallinn

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 Tallinn

At the June solstice the midday sun reaches 54.0° above the horizon in Tallinn and the day lasts 18 h 40 min. At the December solstice the sun climbs only to 7.1° and the day shrinks to 6 h 03 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.

Tallinn through 2026 at a glance

• At solar noon the sun in Tallinn always stands due south, so the south side of a building, a garden or a roof is the one that gets the sun.
• From 23 April to 18 August the sky over Tallinn 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 Tallinn is 12 h 37 min longer than the shortest, and around the equinoxes the days grow or shrink by up to 5.4 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 Tallinn

Solar panels

At 59.4° N a fixed array facing due south collects the most over a year at a tilt of about 48°. Use the solar panel angle calculator with the coordinates 59.437°, 24.7536° 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 Tallinn sits 7.1° above the horizon, so every obstacle casts a shadow 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 08:08–09:22 in the morning and 14:48–16:02 in the evening today, and the sun sets toward SW (235°). 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

Tallinn lies at 59.4° 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:

• Sun position in StockholmSweden • 59.3° N
• Sun position in OsloNorway • 59.9° N
• Sun position in Saint PetersburgRussia • 59.9° N
• Sun position in HelsinkiFinland • 60.2° N

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