Can windows facing north get the setting sun shining in at different times of the year?

Posted on Feb 27, 2009 under Face |

4 Responses to “Can windows facing north get the setting sun shining in at different times of the year?”

  1. In the market Says:

    Seems to me it depends where you live. For example, on the south pole the sun set through a north window would be different.

  2. Yes, in parts of the southern hemisphere.

  3. Strongly depends on the latitude you live on. The closer you live to the tropicus of cancer (in the northern henisphere), the less irregular days you will experience. The closer you get to the pole, the greater variations of day length and thereby sun position will get. From the arctic circle on you can get midnight sun, directly from the north, at midsummer. The farther north you get, the longer the midnight sun experience will last. On the pole it is half a year (but there the sun will be always in the south…)

  4. Yes but rarely. Depends on your coordinates, and the orientation of your windows. If they face 'due north', then,
    summer is when you "might" get some sun at sunset, albeit very little.

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