Sun position in Uppsala

Sun times in Uppsala on 4 November 2026

Times are computed for 59.8588°, 17.6389° 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 Uppsala.

The sun’s path over Uppsala

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 Uppsala

At the June solstice the midday sun reaches 53.6° above the horizon in Uppsala and the day lasts 18 h 49 min. At the December solstice the sun climbs only to 6.7° and the day shrinks to 5 h 55 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.

Uppsala through 2026 at a glance

• At solar noon the sun in Uppsala always stands due south, so the south side of a building, a garden or a roof is the one that gets the sun.
• From 22 April to 20 August the sky over Uppsala 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 Uppsala is 12 h 54 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 Uppsala

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 59.8588°, 17.6389° 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 Uppsala sits 6.7° above the horizon, so every obstacle casts a shadow 8.5 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 07:18–08:28 in the morning and 14:38–15:47 in the evening today, and the sun sets toward WSW (240°). 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.

Other cities

Near Uppsala

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On the same latitude

Uppsala 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:

• Sun position in OsloNorway • 59.9° N
• Sun position in Saint PetersburgRussia • 59.9° N
• Sun position in HelsinkiFinland • 60.2° N
• Sun position in TallinnEstonia • 59.4° N

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