Sun, Moon & Earth Movement Simulator for Reykjavík
Where the sun and the moon are from Reykjavík, at any moment you choose. Today the sun rises at 5:53 AM and sets at 9:09 PM — 15 h 16 m of daylight — and the moon is a waxing gibbous, 98% lit. Drag the slider through a day, a week or a month and watch all of it move.
Showing Reykjavík64.150°, -21.940°
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Reykjavík is the marker on the globe — on the daylit half at the time shown, close to the line where day meets night, riding the dotted circle its spot traces as the Earth turns. The moon is 165° from the sun in the sky then, and that angle is the phase: waxing gibbous. You are looking down on the Earth from far above its orbit, from the north — the side you are on — with sunlight arriving from the top left, so the half of the Earth facing that way is the half having its day. Sizes and distances are not to scale; the directions are.
What Reykjavík’s latitude does to the picture
At 64.2° north, Reykjavík sits far enough from the equator for the seasons to swing hard: 21 h 9 m of daylight at the longest day against 4 h 7 m at the shortest. Watch the dotted circle slide across the day/night line as you move the date through the year.
Baked for the moment this page was built; the simulator above recomputes everything in your browser for whatever instant you set.
Why does the Moon change shape? The angle between the Moon and the Sun is the phase.
What is tidal locking? The Moon turns once per orbit, so the same face stays toward us.
The full stack of questions sits on the simulator’s own page.
Reykjavík on the rest of the site
Nearby, for a side-by-side: Edinburgh (854 mi) · Dublin (929 mi) · Oslo (1086 mi) · London (1174 mi) · Amsterdam (1254 mi) · Copenhagen (1309 mi).