Embed a Shortest-Day Daylight Badge for Your Town

For local news, libraries, schools and town guides

Every place here has a small badge version of its own answer: how many hours of daylight it gets on Dec 21, the earliest sunset of the winter and the date it comes. It suits a local paper's winter weather page, a library's seasonal display, a school's dark-mornings notice or a relocation guide, in place of a sunset time someone copied once from a different town. Two places at almost the same latitude can still see their earliest sunset 65 minutes apart because of where they sit in their time zones: Montgomery, AL (10h 02m, earliest sunset 4:40 pm) and Odessa, TX (10h 04m, earliest sunset 5:45 pm).

How to add one

Use the place's slug, the part of its URL after the domain, e.g. seattle-wa for Seattle, WA, in this snippet:

<iframe src="https://thedarkestday.com/embed?place=PLACE-SLUG" width="320" height="200"
  style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Shortest-day daylight badge"></iframe>

The figures are calculated, not observed, using the method in the methodology guide, so they are the same every year to within a minute. The link inside the badge goes to that place's full page and is marked rel="nofollow", as Google asks for links inside embeddable widgets. No tracking, no cookies, no ads inside the badge.