Daylight
Daylight map displays current illumination of the Earth from sunlight. Terminator of the Earth or the line between the shadow and the bright part is visible above different locations of the world.
Current daylight map
Next links point to current daylight maps of different geolocations (center of continents and both poles):
(External links to daylight map plots open in a new browser window.)
- North America:
300 px | 600 px | 900 px | 1200 px - Hawaii:
300 px | 600 px | 900 px | 1200 px - Europe:
300 px | 600 px | 900 px | 1200 px - Asia:
300 px | 600 px | 900 px | 1200 px - Australia:
300 px | 600 px | 900 px | 1200 px - South America:
300 px | 600 px | 900 px | 1200 px - Africa:
300 px | 600 px | 900 px | 1200 px - North pole:
300 px | 600 px | 900 px | 1200 px - South pole:
300 px | 600 px | 900 px | 1200 px
Look to the opposite direction
You may want to look from the same locations of the world, but to the opposite direction from the Earth up to the sky and space, and explore the current sky from Earth.
Sources and credits
Earth daylight plots rendered with web instruments by Fourmilab, John Walker, fourmilab.ch