Santiago Metropolitan · Chile · 33.46° S · 70.65° W
Solar position in Santiago
Sun position, daylight and the best solar panel angle for Santiago — computed for 33.46° S, 70.65° W, 556 m above sea level.
The sun right now
Sun in Santiago today
Saturday, 24 October 2026 · local time UTC−3
| Event | Time | Direction / height |
|---|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 05:22 | sun 18° below horizon |
| Nautical dawn | 05:54 | 12° below |
| Civil dawn | 06:25 | 6° below |
| Sunrise | 06:50 | 105° ESE |
| Golden hour ends | 07:24 | sun 6° up |
| Solar noon | 13:26 | 68.5° high |
| Golden hour starts | 19:29 | sun 6° up |
| Sunset | 20:03 | 255° WSW |
| Civil dusk | 20:29 | 6° below |
| Nautical dusk | 20:59 | 12° below |
| Astronomical dusk | 21:31 | 18° below |
| Day length | 13 h 12 min | |
Sun path diagram for Santiago
Where the sun stands in the sky: the centre is straight overhead, the outer ring is the horizon. Numbers mark local clock hours.
- June solstice
- Equinox
- December solstice
- Today
On the June solstice the sun reaches 33.1° at solar noon in Santiago; on the December solstice only 80.0°. Sunrise swings from 62° ENE in June to 119° ESE in December — a 57° arc along the horizon.
Sunrise, sunset and sun height by month
Values for the 21st of each month, local clock time including daylight saving time.
| Month | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Day length | Noon elevation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 06:54 | 13:53 | 20:53 | 13 h 59 min | 76.3° |
| February | 07:24 | 13:56 | 20:27 | 13 h 04 min | 66.9° |
| March | 07:46 | 13:49 | 19:52 | 12 h 06 min | 56.1° |
| April | 07:09 | 12:41 | 18:12 | 11 h 03 min | 44.5° |
| May | 07:31 | 12:39 | 17:46 | 10 h 16 min | 36.3° |
| June | 07:46 | 12:44 | 17:42 | 9 h 56 min | 33.1° |
| July | 07:41 | 12:49 | 17:56 | 10 h 15 min | 36.2° |
| August | 07:14 | 12:45 | 18:17 | 11 h 04 min | 44.6° |
| September | 07:33 | 13:35 | 19:38 | 12 h 05 min | 56.0° |
| October | 06:54 | 13:27 | 20:00 | 13 h 06 min | 67.4° |
| November | 06:28 | 13:28 | 20:28 | 14 h 00 min | 76.6° |
| December | 06:29 | 13:40 | 20:52 | 14 h 23 min | 80.0° |
A year of daylight in Santiago
Each column is one day of 2026. Bright: sun above the horizon; soft: civil twilight; line: solar noon. Steps are daylight saving time changes.
Best solar panel angle in Santiago
Fixed array facing north (azimuth 0°). Energy per kWp from NASA POWER monthly climate, including clouds, temperature and snow reflection.
26°collects the most energy over a year: 1770 kWh per kWp.
58°gives the most in the darkest month — the one an off-grid system is sized for.
- Yearly energy
- Worst-month energy
| Tilt | kWh/kWp per year | Share of best year | June kWh/kWp/day | Best ÷ worst month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0° | 1608 | 91% | 1.76 | 4.0× |
| 15° | 1739 | 98% | 2.31 | 3.0× |
| 26° year-round best | 1770 | 100% | 2.63 | 2.5× |
| 30° | 1767 | 100% | 2.72 | 2.3× |
| 33° = latitude | 1760 | 99% | 2.78 | 2.3× |
| 45° | 1691 | 96% | 2.96 | 2.0× |
| 58° off-grid best | 1545 | 87% | 3.03 | 1.8× |
| 60° | 1516 | 86% | 3.03 | 1.8× |
| 70° | 1351 | 76% | 2.97 | 1.6× |
| 90° | 939 | 53% | 2.60 | 2.7× |
A fixed array in Santiago produces the most over a year at 26°. The design month for an off-grid system is June: at 58° it makes 3.03 kWh per kWp a day, 15% more than at 26°, and costs 13% of the yearly total. Why steep panels win winter.
Off-grid solar in Santiago at 70°
Daily energy of 1 kWp by month. Bars: panels at 70°. Line: panels at 26° (year-round best).
| Month | Sun hours, flat | Sun hours at 70° | kWh/kWp/day at 70° | at 26° | Mean temp. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.65 | 4.06 | 3.37 | 6.51 | 21.1 °C |
| February | 7.79 | 4.99 | 4.16 | 6.45 | 20.3 °C |
| March | 6.36 | 5.77 | 4.85 | 5.98 | 18.8 °C |
| April | 4.42 | 5.49 | 4.68 | 4.77 | 15.5 °C |
| May | 2.86 | 4.15 | 3.58 | 3.32 | 12.0 °C |
| June | 2.17 | 3.40 | 2.97 | 2.63 | 8.9 °C |
| July | 2.39 | 3.57 | 3.13 | 2.84 | 8.2 °C |
| August | 3.18 | 3.99 | 3.48 | 3.48 | 9.4 °C |
| September | 4.53 | 4.45 | 3.85 | 4.46 | 11.3 °C |
| October | 6.01 | 4.43 | 3.79 | 5.31 | 13.9 °C |
| November | 7.70 | 4.10 | 3.45 | 6.10 | 17.1 °C |
| December | 8.69 | 3.79 | 3.16 | 6.44 | 19.5 °C |
| Year | 5.38 avg | 4.34 avg | 1351 kWh | 1770 kWh |
Sizing example. To run a 1 kWh-per-day load through June on LiFePO4 batteries (charge controller, battery and inverter losses included) you need about 400 Wp of panels at 70°, versus 450 Wp at 26°. The steep array is 11% smaller for the same winter. Size your own system.
Row spacing in Santiago
Distance between rows of 2 m long panels (slope length) so that no row shades the next between 10:00 and 14:00 solar time on the winter solstice.
3.9 mrow pitch at 70°
3.3 mrow pitch at 26°
How Santiago compares in Chile
Against the other 138 places in Chile with climate data, for a fixed array at its best angle.
20thof 139 places in Chile for sunshine, shared: 5.38 peak sun hours a day on flat ground.
+6%solar energy a year compared with the average place in Chile: 1,770 against 1,668 kWh per kWp.
−13 mindaylight on the longest day, compared with the average place in Chile: 14 h 23 min against 14 h 36 min.
26°best year-round tilt here; across Chile it runs from 16° in Arica to 43° in Punta Arenas.
Of the 139 places in Chile, Calama gets the most sun (7.19 peak sun hours a day) and Puerto Natales the least (2.73); Santiago ranks joint 20th. In its darkest month, June, 1 kWp of off-grid panels at 70° makes 2.97 kWh a day here, against 2.61 kWh on average in Chile. The shortest day lasts 9 h 56 min, +12 min compared with the average.
Solar forecast for Santiago, next 48 hours
Expected output of 1 kWp at 70°, computed from the ICON-EU weather model of the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), Europe.
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Sun positions: NREL Solar Position Algorithm. Climate: NASA POWER monthly climatology (NASA Langley Research Center). Forecast: Deutscher Wetterdienst, ICON-EU (CC BY 4.0), processed. Places: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Time zones: IANA. Sources and licences.