Solar Altitude & Azimuth: Al Qusais 1, UAE

Direct answer

For Al Qusais 1 at 25.2793, 55.3700, the declination-only solar-noon altitude is approximately 88.2° at the June solstice, 64.7° at an equinox and 41.3° at the December solstice. Refine these geometry checks with the project date, civil time, facade azimuth, terrain and local horizon. The reproducible location record is GeoNames ID 13118433 in administrative area 03, at 25.2793, 55.3700; replace it with the surveyed parcel point before relying on the result. As a transparent geometry check, declination-only solar-noon altitude is about 88.2° at the June solstice, 64.7° at an equinox and 41.3° at the December solstice. Representative 21st-day geometry ranges from about 10.4 hours in December to 13.6 hours in June; this excludes atmospheric refraction, terrain and obstruction effects. The cited national authority is a discovery starting point; current local documents and a named qualified reviewer control project use of this solar altitude and azimuth record.

Content and cited inputs reviewed by Scott Barrington, Harth founder and architectural technology specialist · Published 2026-08-26 · Updated 2026-09-02.

What must be verified for Al Qusais 1?

Al Qusais 1 is represented here at approximately 25.2793, 55.3700 for discovery and workflow planning. A project address, parcel, elevation, exposure, authority, and submission date must replace that city-centre reference before design use.

How should solar altitude and azimuth be established?

1. Fix the surveyed site and local time basis.
2. Select an authoritative weather source or a named solar-position algorithm.
3. Record period, percentile or scenario and units.
4. Test sensitivity to elevation, exposure, urban form and horizon.
5. Save the source file, retrieval date and checker in the model record.

What are the limits of this worksheet?

This solar-angle-workflow page is a project-starting worksheet, not a design value or approval. The controlling authority and qualified professionals for the Al Qusais 1 site remain authoritative.

Al Qusais 1 monthly solar geometry check for solar altitude & azimuth

Al Qusais 1 solar-geometry fingerprint at 25.2793, 55.3700

• Al Qusais 1, 21 January: declination -20.14°, noon altitude 44.58°, zenith 45.42°, geometric daylight 10.670 hours, and vertical-object noon shadow ratio 1.015.
• Al Qusais 1, 21 February: declination -11.23°, noon altitude 53.49°, zenith 36.51°, geometric daylight 11.283 hours, and vertical-object noon shadow ratio 0.740.
• Al Qusais 1, 21 March: declination -0.40°, noon altitude 64.32°, zenith 25.68°, geometric daylight 11.975 hours, and vertical-object noon shadow ratio 0.481.
• Al Qusais 1, 21 April: declination +11.58°, noon altitude 76.30°, zenith 13.70°, geometric daylight 12.740 hours, and vertical-object noon shadow ratio 0.244.
• Al Qusais 1, 21 May: declination +20.14°, noon altitude 84.86°, zenith 5.14°, geometric daylight 13.330 hours, and vertical-object noon shadow ratio 0.090.
• Al Qusais 1, 21 June: declination +23.45°, noon altitude 88.17°, zenith 1.83°, geometric daylight 13.576 hours, and vertical-object noon shadow ratio 0.032.
• Al Qusais 1, 21 July: declination +20.44°, noon altitude 85.16°, zenith 4.84°, geometric daylight 13.352 hours, and vertical-object noon shadow ratio 0.085.
• Al Qusais 1, 21 August: declination +11.75°, noon altitude 76.47°, zenith 13.53°, geometric daylight 12.752 hours, and vertical-object noon shadow ratio 0.241.
• Al Qusais 1, 21 September: declination -0.20°, noon altitude 64.52°, zenith 25.48°, geometric daylight 11.987 hours, and vertical-object noon shadow ratio 0.477.
• Al Qusais 1, 21 October: declination -11.75°, noon altitude 52.97°, zenith 37.03°, geometric daylight 11.248 hours, and vertical-object noon shadow ratio 0.754.
• Al Qusais 1, 21 November: declination -20.44°, noon altitude 44.28°, zenith 45.72°, geometric daylight 10.648 hours, and vertical-object noon shadow ratio 1.025.
• Al Qusais 1, 21 December: declination -23.45°, noon altitude 41.27°, zenith 48.73°, geometric daylight 10.424 hours, and vertical-object noon shadow ratio 1.139.

Harth computed the Al Qusais 1 fingerprint for latitude 25.2793° with the Cooper declination approximation, 90° - |latitude - declination| at solar noon, centre-to-centre sunrise hour angle and 1 / tan(altitude) shadow ratio. Longitude 55.3700° is retained for a later civil-time conversion; this screen does not perform that conversion. See NOAA's solar calculation details. Atmospheric refraction, terrain, facade azimuth and obstructions remain outside this first-pass comparison.

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Sources and method

Location data from the GeoNames AE dump (CC BY 4.0, snapshot 2026-08-31, GeoNames ID 13118433). Regulatory starting point: UAE Government overview of local building authorities. Figures are illustrative — verify against the current locally adopted edition for the site. Solar-method context: NOAA Solar Calculation Details; the Harth monthly table uses a simpler declination and geometric-daylight approximation whose stated limitations must be retained. Project-date refinement reference: NREL Solar Position Algorithm.

Source links

• download.geonames.org

• u.ae

• gml.noaa.gov

• midcdmz.nrel.gov