Tukuk-OS🌆 Kingston
Jamaica · Americas · 17.97°N, 76.79°W
Quick facts
| Country | Jamaica |
|---|---|
| Continent / region | Americas |
| Coordinates (approx.) | 17.97°N, 76.79°W · view on map |
Kingston is in Jamaica, a country in Americas. For the living forecast here, open World Weather; Kingston’s population and history are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).
Where Kingston sits on the Earth
At 17.97° north of the equator, Kingston is about 1,998 km from the equator itself and 8,009 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 72.0° 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 1,592 km/h — fastest at the equator, nothing at the poles. As for daylight: Kingston sees its longest day lasts about 13.1 hours of daylight and its shortest about 10.9.
Nearest cities on our list: Santo Domingo (729.8 km to the east), Barranquilla (808.3 km to the south-southeast), Havana (814.8 km to the northwest), Cartagena (854.2 km to the south). 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 Kingston emerges at 17.97°S, 103.21°E — its antipode. The closest city on our list to that point is Bandung, about 1,318 km away; whether the antipode itself is ocean or land is a good quiz question before you look it up.