Sun Path: Greater Sudbury, Canada

Direct answer

For Greater Sudbury at 46.4900, -80.9900, the declination-only solar-noon altitude is approximately 66.9° at the June solstice, 43.5° at an equinox and 20.1° 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 5964700 in administrative area 08, at 46.4900, -80.9900; replace it with the surveyed parcel point before relying on the result. As a transparent geometry check, declination-only solar-noon altitude is about 66.9° at the June solstice, 43.5° at an equinox and 20.1° at the December solstice. Representative 21st-day geometry ranges from about 8.4 hours in December to 15.6 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 sun path record.

Prepared by Harth · Prepared from the cited location and country sources; local project inputs remain unreviewed · Published 2026-08-26 · Updated 2026-08-31.

What must be verified for Greater Sudbury?

Greater Sudbury is represented here at approximately 46.4900, -80.9900 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 sun path 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 sun-path-workflow page is a project-starting worksheet, not a design value or approval. The controlling authority and qualified professionals for the Greater Sudbury site remain authoritative.

Which related searches does this primary location record cover?

This primary route consolidates the location evidence needed for Sun Path, Solar Altitude & Azimuth, Solar Shading Design, Daylight & Orientation. A narrower route should be released only when it adds a materially different official source, calculation, process, threshold or worked example.

Greater Sudbury monthly solar geometry check for sun path

Month-by-month geometry interpretation

• 21 January: approximate solar-noon altitude 23.4° (zenith angle 66.6°) and 9.0 hours of geometric daylight. That is 0.6 hours longer than the preceding representative date in this annual sequence.
• 21 February: approximate solar-noon altitude 32.3° (zenith angle 57.7°) and 10.4 hours of geometric daylight. That is 1.4 hours longer than the preceding representative date in this annual sequence.
• 21 March: approximate solar-noon altitude 43.1° (zenith angle 46.9°) and 11.9 hours of geometric daylight. That is 1.6 hours longer than the preceding representative date in this annual sequence.
• 21 April: approximate solar-noon altitude 55.1° (zenith angle 34.9°) and 13.7 hours of geometric daylight. That is 1.7 hours longer than the preceding representative date in this annual sequence.
• 21 May: approximate solar-noon altitude 63.6° (zenith angle 26.4°) and 15.0 hours of geometric daylight. That is 1.4 hours longer than the preceding representative date in this annual sequence.
• 21 June: approximate solar-noon altitude 67.0° (zenith angle 23.0°) and 15.6 hours of geometric daylight. That is 0.6 hours longer than the preceding representative date in this annual sequence.
• 21 July: approximate solar-noon altitude 64.0° (zenith angle 26.0°) and 15.1 hours of geometric daylight. That is 0.5 hours shorter than the preceding representative date in this annual sequence.
• 21 August: approximate solar-noon altitude 55.3° (zenith angle 34.7°) and 13.7 hours of geometric daylight. That is 1.4 hours shorter than the preceding representative date in this annual sequence.
• 21 September: approximate solar-noon altitude 43.3° (zenith angle 46.7°) and 12.0 hours of geometric daylight. That is 1.7 hours shorter than the preceding representative date in this annual sequence.
• 21 October: approximate solar-noon altitude 31.8° (zenith angle 58.2°) and 10.3 hours of geometric daylight. That is 1.7 hours shorter than the preceding representative date in this annual sequence.
• 21 November: approximate solar-noon altitude 23.1° (zenith angle 66.9°) and 8.9 hours of geometric daylight. That is 1.4 hours shorter than the preceding representative date in this annual sequence.
• 21 December: approximate solar-noon altitude 20.1° (zenith angle 69.9°) and 8.4 hours of geometric daylight. That is 0.5 hours shorter than the preceding representative date in this annual sequence.

Harth calculation for latitude 46.4900°: Cooper declination approximation, 90° - |latitude - declination| at solar noon, and centre-to-centre sunrise hour angle. See NOAA's solar calculation details for fuller method context. This screening table excludes equation-of-time/civil-time conversion, atmospheric refraction, terrain, facade azimuth and obstructions; it is not an hourly shading result.

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Sources and method

Location data from the GeoNames CA dump (CC BY 4.0, snapshot 2026-08-31, GeoNames ID 5964700). Regulatory starting point: Codes Canada and the applicable provincial or territorial authority. 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.

Source links

• download.geonames.org

• nrc.canada.ca

• gml.noaa.gov