Västerbotten · Sweden · 63.83° N · 20.26° E
Solar position in Umeå
Sun position, daylight and the best solar panel angle for Umeå — computed for 63.83° N, 20.26° E, 24 m above sea level.
The sun right now
Sun in Umeå today
Saturday, 24 October 2026 · local time UTC+2
| Event | Time | Direction / height |
|---|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 05:15 | sun 18° below horizon |
| Nautical dawn | 06:09 | 12° below |
| Civil dawn | 07:05 | 6° below |
| Sunrise | 07:55 | 116° ESE |
| Golden hour ends | 09:10 | sun 6° up |
| Solar noon | 12:22 | 14.4° high |
| Golden hour starts | 15:34 | sun 6° up |
| Sunset | 16:50 | 244° WSW |
| Civil dusk | 17:40 | 6° below |
| Nautical dusk | 18:35 | 12° below |
| Astronomical dusk | 19:29 | 18° below |
| Day length | 8 h 55 min | |
Sun path diagram for Umeå
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 49.6° at solar noon in Umeå; on the December solstice only 3.0°. Sunrise swings from 21° NNE in June to 151° SSE in December — a 129° 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 | 08:48 | 11:50 | 14:53 | 6 h 05 min | 6.5° |
| February | 07:13 | 11:53 | 16:33 | 9 h 20 min | 15.8° |
| March | 05:36 | 11:46 | 17:57 | 12 h 20 min | 26.5° |
| April | 04:48 | 12:38 | 20:29 | 15 h 41 min | 38.1° |
| May | 03:09 | 12:35 | 22:03 | 18 h 54 min | 46.4° |
| June | 02:14 | 12:40 | 23:07 | 20 h 53 min | 49.6° |
| July | 03:14 | 12:45 | 22:13 | 18 h 59 min | 46.6° |
| August | 04:49 | 12:41 | 20:32 | 15 h 43 min | 38.2° |
| September | 06:18 | 12:31 | 18:43 | 12 h 25 min | 26.8° |
| October | 07:45 | 12:23 | 17:00 | 9 h 14 min | 15.5° |
| November | 08:23 | 11:24 | 14:25 | 6 h 02 min | 6.3° |
| December | 09:28 | 11:36 | 13:45 | 4 h 18 min | 3.0° |
A year of daylight in Umeå
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 Umeå
Fixed array facing south (azimuth 180°). Energy per kWp from NASA POWER monthly climate, including clouds, temperature and snow reflection.
47°collects the most energy over a year: 1013 kWh per kWp.
72°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 | December kWh/kWp/day | Best ÷ worst month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0° | 754 | 74% | 0.04 | 120.3× |
| 15° | 891 | 88% | 0.05 | 111.5× |
| 30° | 979 | 97% | 0.05 | 101.2× |
| 45° | 1012 | 100% | 0.05 | 90.3× |
| 47° year-round best | 1013 | 100% | 0.06 | 88.8× |
| 60° | 990 | 98% | 0.06 | 80.0× |
| 64° = latitude | 975 | 96% | 0.06 | 77.3× |
| 70° | 945 | 93% | 0.06 | 73.1× |
| 72° off-grid best | 934 | 92% | 0.06 | 71.6× |
| 90° | 790 | 78% | 0.06 | 63.8× |
A fixed array in Umeå produces the most over a year at 47°. The design month for an off-grid system is December: at 72° it makes 0.06 kWh per kWp a day, 5% more than at 47°, and costs 8% of the yearly total. Why steep panels win winter.
Off-grid solar in Umeå at 70°
Daily energy of 1 kWp by month. Bars: panels at 70°. Line: panels at 47° (year-round best).
| Month | Sun hours, flat | Sun hours at 70° | kWh/kWp/day at 70° | at 47° | Mean temp. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January snow | 0.13 | 0.41 | 0.36 | 0.30 | -5.9 °C |
| February snow | 0.72 | 1.90 | 1.73 | 1.53 | -6.4 °C |
| March snow | 2.15 | 4.12 | 3.77 | 3.53 | -3.7 °C |
| April | 3.72 | 4.54 | 4.07 | 4.35 | 1.3 °C |
| May | 5.10 | 4.83 | 4.22 | 4.88 | 6.8 °C |
| June | 5.70 | 4.79 | 4.10 | 4.91 | 11.9 °C |
| July | 5.22 | 4.60 | 3.88 | 4.58 | 15.7 °C |
| August | 3.95 | 4.27 | 3.62 | 4.01 | 14.9 °C |
| September | 2.32 | 3.40 | 2.94 | 2.98 | 10.5 °C |
| October | 0.93 | 1.93 | 1.69 | 1.58 | 4.4 °C |
| November snow | 0.23 | 0.70 | 0.61 | 0.53 | 0.0 °C |
| December snow | 0.06 | 0.08 | 0.06 | 0.06 | -3.3 °C |
| Year | 2.53 avg | 2.97 avg | 945 kWh | 1013 kWh |
Sizing example. To run a 1 kWh-per-day load through December on LiFePO4 batteries (charge controller, battery and inverter losses included) you need about 20,410 Wp of panels at 70°, versus 21,340 Wp at 47°. The steep array is 4% smaller for the same winter. Size your own system.
Row spacing in Umeå
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.
—The winter sun stays too low for rows to be shade-free; use a single row.
How Umeå compares in Sweden
Against the other 98 places in Sweden with climate data, for a fixed array at its best angle.
91stof 99 places in Sweden for sunshine, shared: 2.53 peak sun hours a day on flat ground.
−4%solar energy a year compared with the average place in Sweden: 1,013 against 1,059 kWh per kWp.
+2 h 16 mindaylight on the longest day, compared with Stockholm: 20 h 53 min against 18 h 37 min.
47°best year-round tilt here; across Sweden it runs from 41° in Malmö to 50° in Kiruna.
Of the 99 places in Sweden, Kalmar gets the most sun (2.96 peak sun hours a day) and Kiruna the least (2.22); Umeå ranks joint 91st. In its darkest month, December, 1 kWp of off-grid panels at 70° makes 0.06 kWh a day here, against 0.59 kWh on average in Sweden. The shortest day lasts 4 h 18 min, −1 h 47 min compared with Stockholm.
Solar forecast for Umeå, 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.