Where does the sun shines the longest?

Question

East? South? West? North?????

I am referring to the site orientation of a house. Is it at the East? South? West?North???. What I mean is that where's the hottest part inside the house? Is that part facing east? south? west or north?

Answer 1

the west as the sun sets its the hottest part. i would say from 2pm to 7pm in the west is the worst especially in the summer time. in the summer time its the top of the house to the west, and in the winter time its the south to the west.

Answer 2

In the northern hemisphere, a south-facing house will get the most sunlight.

In winter the sun rises in the southeast and moves across the southern sky until it sets in the southwest. So the north side of a house will get no sunshine at all, although it will get indirect sunlight scattered from the sky and reflected off things on the ground. In summer the sun rises in the northeast and rises as it moves south then west across the southern sky in the morning, then sinks as it moves west and then north across the southern and western sky, until it sets in the northwest. So every side of a house will get some sunlight, but the south will get the most.

Different parts of the world get the same total number of hours of sunlight over the course of a year, but the tropics get the most energy because the sun is higher in the sky more of the time.

Answer 3

The sun shines the longest in the region surrounding the North Pole (in the northern hemisphere's summer, with 24 hours of sunlight above the Arctic Circle at the summer solstice in June ) and in the region surrounding the South Pole duriing the southern summer (solstice in December). Those regions get the least light of anywhere on the globe during their winters, with the sun not rising at all for as long as three full months (at the poles themselves).

Answer 4

. Billy-Bob, I think your other Posters are a bit confussed by your Question. I certainly AM! but ....
The hottest time of every day, all things being equal, is around 3:30 PM. The nasty ol' sun has had about 9 hours to heat up your living quarters during the day. By some coincidence, that's also the time when the sun is beginning to set, and by golly, it usually 'sets' in the West.
So at the peak heat of the day, the sun's rays are streaming into any west-facing window so, presto-chango, there's your hot spot, ah, excuse the French.

Answer 5

Depends on what you mean by "longest".
The longest continuous sunshine is at the North Pole from the the March equinox to the September equinox, and at the South Pole from the September equinos to the March equinox. In these places during their local summer the sun never sets.

Other than that, all places on Earth (outside the polar regions) receive the same amount of sunlight (its just stronger at the equator than elsewhere).

Answer 6

A "day" at the north and south poles are 6 months long...

Answer 7

At the north and south poles, for six months continuously.

Answer 8

What do you mean by the longest?

If you go towards the poles, you will get the most extremes of both most sunlight in a day or most darkness in a day depending on what season it is. (ie: Parts of Alaska get 24hours of sunlight during the summer solstice)

Answer 9

alaska i think. not very good at geography.

Answer 10

equator