Tukuk-OS🌆 Kabul
Afghanistan · Asia · 34.53°N, 69.17°E
Quick facts
| Country | Afghanistan |
|---|---|
| Continent / region | Asia |
| Coordinates (approx.) | 34.53°N, 69.17°E · view on map |
Kabul is in Afghanistan, a country in Asia. For the living forecast here, open World Weather; Kabul’s population and history are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).
Where Kabul sits on the Earth
At 34.53° north of the equator, Kabul is about 3,840 km from the equator itself and 6,168 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 55.5° 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 1,379 km/h — fastest at the equator, nothing at the poles. As for daylight: Kabul sees its longest day lasts about 14.3 hours of daylight and its shortest about 9.7.
Nearest cities on our list: Islamabad (369.5 km to the east-southeast), Dushanbe (449.4 km to the north), Lahore (584.7 km to the east-southeast), Tashkent (752.8 km to the north). 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 Kabul emerges at 34.53°S, 110.83°W — its antipode. The closest city on our list to that point is Valparaiso, about 3,604 km away; whether the antipode itself is ocean or land is a good quiz question before you look it up.