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Subsolar Points

A world map in the Interrupted Goode Homolosine Projection. A band of orange extends across central South America, south Africa, Madagascar, northern Australia, Melanesia and Polynesia. The title and caption are in the same orange and read: 'Subsolar Points: November 2026', 'points where the sun will be directly overhead at the zenith'. The credits at the bottom are white and read: '#30DayMapChallenge 2026 - Day 1: Points | Made with Natural Earth by:tlohde | tlohde.com | cartography.studio'
Subsolar Points: Where go in November if you want to be directly below the sun
projectioninterrupted goode homolosine
toolspython: cartopy, matplotlib, shapely, geopandas
datastock image and coastlines from cartopy, natural earth for clipping subsolar points to land; cartopy's _solar_position function for determining subsolar points
fontRaleway by the League of Moveable Type
commentsnothing too fancy here; briefly put the sublunar points on there as well, but that got a touch messy, and I didn't feel like filtering out the sublunar points that occur during the day
date01/11/2026