Tukuk-OS🌆 Dubai
United Arab Emirates · Asia · 25.20°N, 55.27°E
Quick facts
| Country | United Arab Emirates |
|---|---|
| Continent / region | Asia |
| Coordinates (approx.) | 25.20°N, 55.27°E · view on map |
Dubai is in United Arab Emirates, a country in Asia. For the living forecast here, open World Weather; Dubai’s population and history are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).
Where Dubai sits on the Earth
At 25.20° north of the equator, Dubai is about 2,802 km from the equator itself and 7,205 km from its nearest pole — and that puts it in the subtropics, where summers run hot and how mild the winter feels depends heavily on the nearest sea. Latitude is only the sky’s address, of course: altitude, oceans and winds write the actual weather, which is why two cities on the same parallel can need overcoats in one place and sun hats in the other. The numbers on this page come straight from the town’s own coordinates.
Two consequences of that latitude anyone can test. On the equinox the midday sun stands 64.8° above the horizon here (straight up at the equator, lower the further you go). And because the Earth is a sphere turning once a day, a point at this latitude is carried around its axis at roughly 1,515 km/h — fastest at the equator, nothing at the poles. As for daylight: Dubai sees its longest day lasts about 13.6 hours of daylight and its shortest about 10.4.
Nearest cities on our list: Abu Dhabi (122.6 km to the southwest), Muscat (364.9 km to the east-southeast), Doha (376.3 km to the west), Shiraz (555.7 km to the north-northwest). Every profile here carries the same arithmetic, so the distances between any two of them can be checked by opening both pages.
The other side of the world: a straight line through the centre of the Earth from Dubai emerges at 25.20°S, 124.73°W — its antipode. The closest city on our list to that point is Apia, about 5,063 km away; whether the antipode itself is ocean or land is a good quiz question before you look it up.