Tukuk-OS🌆 Honiara
Solomon Islands · Oceania · 9.43°S, 159.96°E
Quick facts
| Country | Solomon Islands |
|---|---|
| Continent / region | Oceania |
| Coordinates (approx.) | 9.43°S, 159.96°E · view on map |
Honiara is in Solomon Islands, a country in Oceania. For the living forecast here, open World Weather; Honiara’s population and history are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).
Where Honiara sits on the Earth
At 9.43° south of the equator, Honiara is about 1,049 km from the equator itself and 8,959 km from its nearest pole — and that puts it inside the tropics, where the sun passes directly overhead twice a year and the yearly swing in day length stays small. 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 80.6° 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 1,651 km/h — fastest at the equator, nothing at the poles. As for daylight: Honiara sees its longest day lasts about 12.6 hours of daylight and its shortest about 11.4.
Nearest cities on our list: Port Vila (1,292 km to the southeast), Port Moresby (1,402 km to the west), Noumea (1,588 km to the south-southeast), Cairns (1,746 km to the west-southwest). 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 Honiara emerges at 9.43°N, 20.04°W — its antipode. The closest city on our list to that point is Dakar, about 651.2 km away; whether the antipode itself is ocean or land is a good quiz question before you look it up.