🌆 Port Louis

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Quick facts

Port Louis is in Mauritius, a country in Africa. For the living forecast here, open World Weather; Port Louis’s population and history are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

Where Port Louis sits on the Earth

At 20.16° south of the equator, Port Louis is about 2,242 km from the equator itself and 7,766 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 69.8° 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 1,571 km/h — fastest at the equator, nothing at the poles. As for daylight: Port Louis sees its longest day lasts about 13.2 hours of daylight and its shortest about 10.8.

Nearest cities on our list: Antananarivo (1,053 km to the west), Dar es Salaam (2,461 km to the northwest), Lilongwe (2,609 km to the west-northwest), Maputo (2,625 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 Port Louis emerges at 20.16°N, 122.50°W — its antipode. The closest city on our list to that point is Tijuana, about 1,477 km away; whether the antipode itself is ocean or land is a good quiz question before you look it up.

Coordinates are an approximate city centre. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.