Where does the sun set in the southern hemisphere?

Question

Up here in the Northern Hemisphere the sun rises in the East and sets in the West. What happens down under?

Answer 1

Same...

North is still north.. south is still south etc...

The sun is still in the sky AND THE EARTH IS STILL ORBITTING IT...

Good grief... did you really think it through before you posted the question?

Bye bye 10 points... thanks for the 2 points at least

Answer 2

Over most of the earth the sun always rises somewhere around the east and sets somewhere around the west. It is the same in both hemispheres. The exceptions are the poles, and those places and times where it does not rise or set at all.

Between April and early September (the northern hemisphere summer months) it rises north of east and sets north of west in both hemispheres. From October to early March (the southern hemisphere summer) it rises south of east and sets south of west in both hemispheres. Around the equinoxes it rises almost exactly in the east and sets almost exactly in the west everywhere. Except at the poles where it will circle the horizon.

One difference is the direction the sun moves in the sky. At latitudes far enough from the equator that the sun seems to move around the sky rather than up to an overhead position, the sun moves from left to right in the northern hemisphere and from right to left in the southern hemisphere. I found it took quite some time to get used to that when I lived for a while in Australia.

Answer 3

As true as the sun rises in the east and sets in the West I would have to say "no" just to be trivial. As the sun is stationary, and it is the Earth that orbits round the sun then that tells me that the sun neither sets nor rises. It just so happens the due to the orbit of the Earth that we see the sun in the East first and by the end of the day the Earth has orbited that much that sun ends up in the West.

Answer 4

it is the same as in Northern Hemisphere. the sun always sets in the West and rises in the East as the world is round

Answer 5

When the sun sets in the northern hemisphere it skims the horizon going from left to right. In the southern hemisphere it skims the horizon from right to left.

Of course, the Earth is orbiting the sun, however as a thought experiment, imagine a small yellow tennis ball sun rolling round the equator of football sized Earth. From the top of the football the tennis ball sun goes from left to right in a clockwise direction, but from the bottom of the football the tennis ball goes from right to left, in a anti-clockwise direction.

Sorry if this is confusing but it works for me.

Answer 6

The same. But remember east and west are reversed so the sun goes from right to left instead of left to right

Answer 7

It is pretty much the same. If one is within the Tropic of Capricon(ie:33.5 degree south latitude), there is a possibility that a slight periodic shift to north west or south west. (But that is true in the north pole also if you live within Tropic of Cancer).

Answer 8

exactly the same except during the day is travels round the northern sky rather than the southern

Answer 9

Well John, it is the exact opposite. Don't be fooled by the other answers. Believe that ? If you do I have some ocean front property in Arizona for sale.

Answer 10

everywhere in the world the sun always sets on the west
besides the N&S poles

Answer 11

in the west dude