A common recommendation for residential dwellings is to place living areas facing solar noon and sleeping quarters on the opposite side.
Food cooks faster in the two hours before and after the local solar noon than it does in either the early morning or the late afternoon.
The sun reaches its highest angle at solar noon, which rarely corresponds to 12:00 on clocks.
For instance, the Sun transits the meridian at solar noon.
The clock time of solar noon depends on the longitude and date.
A mean solar day is defined as the time between one solar noon and the next, averaged over the year.
Even on the equator, sunrise and sunset shift several minutes back and forth through the year, along with solar noon.
Students need to make their observations within an hour of solar noon.
Virtually all remotely sensed data is collected within 2 hours of solar noon to avoid extended shadows in the image or photo.
The city's highest solar noon is 75.2 degrees with the longest daylength being 14 hours and 39 seconds, both occurring from June 17-25.
