Day and Night World Map
Where it is day and night right now, updated every minute.
Reading the map
- Light area: the sun is up.
- Darker bands: civil, nautical and astronomical twilight; darkest = night.
- Yellow dot: where the sun is straight overhead.
- The night edge is a curve except at the equinoxes; in December the Arctic is dark all day, in June the Antarctic.
Land outlines: Natural Earth. Sun position: NOAA formulas. More: sunrise and sunset · world clock · equinoxes and solstices