sunrise-sunset

A static site to compare sunrise/sunset times of to places on Earth

View the site here

What's this?

I grew up in Budapest and moved to the Netherlands a few years ago. I could not ignore the fact that the Sun has very different patterns: it rises later and sets later here than in Budapest. However, this difference is not uniform: my feeling was that the sun rises much later and sets about the same time during the winter. I saw the inverse in the summer: Dutch summer evenings are much longer, but dawn does not lag behind that much.

This page lets you compare the dawn/dusk pattern of two arbitrary locations: just click the map to move a marker to your desired location. Hover over the graph to see exact dawn/dusk times.

I used quite a few tools to get this site going:

• Bootstrap for the general layout
• timezonedb.com's API to get time zone information based on geographic coordinates
• the Nominatim api to get the name of the location that was chosen
• SunCalc to calculate dawn/dusk times
• Datejs to work with dates
• C3.js for the graph
• Leaflet for the map
• leaflet-color-markers for the orange marker on the map.
• Google Fonts for the typeface (Crimson Text)