Tukuk-OS🌆 Honolulu
United States · Oceania · 21.31°N, 157.86°W
Quick facts
| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| Continent / region | Oceania |
| Coordinates (approx.) | 21.31°N, 157.86°W · view on map |
Honolulu is in United States, a country in Oceania. For the living forecast here, open World Weather; Honolulu’s population and history are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).
Where Honolulu sits on the Earth
At 21.31° north of the equator, Honolulu is about 2,370 km from the equator itself and 7,638 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 68.7° 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 1,560 km/h — fastest at the equator, nothing at the poles. As for daylight: Honolulu sees its longest day lasts about 13.3 hours of daylight and its shortest about 10.7.
Nearest cities on our list: San Francisco (3,854 km to the northeast), Los Angeles (4,120 km to the east-northeast), Portland (4,175 km to the northeast), Apia (4,192 km to the south-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 Honolulu emerges at 21.31°S, 22.14°E — its antipode. The closest city on our list to that point is Gaborone, about 535.5 km away; whether the antipode itself is ocean or land is a good quiz question before you look it up.
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