Shanghai today
The globe opens over Shanghai (31.2° N, 121.5° E) with the latest satellite clouds and rain radar, and Shanghai's place card open: its local time, current weather, sunrise and sunset, the Moon, and any alerts near it.
Below, as the page is served, are the alerts near Shanghai and which sources were checked for them, its weather now and over the next day, its air quality, then its day on its own clock (Asia/Shanghai): sunrise, sunset and the length of the day, golden and blue hour, the Moon's phase and when it's up, the coming week's sunsets, and the next full Moon and eclipses seen from Shanghai; then what might cross its sky.
Alerts near Shanghai
Nothing active near Shanghai at GMT+8 from what was checked: tropical cyclones, tsunami bulletins, earthquakes, GDACS disaster alerts, satellite fire detections and air quality. Shanghai's national weather warnings aren't carried here, so check its national weather service too. This page is not a warning service: in an emergency, follow your local authorities.
Weather over Shanghai
- Nowlight drizzle, 17°C · wind W 8 km/h · 100% cloud cover
- Next 24 hourshigh 17°C around , low 12°C around · rain likeliest around , a 91% chance
- Hour by hour 17°C, drizzle, 91% chance of rain · 16°C, overcast, 58% chance of rain · 15°C, overcast · 16°C, drizzle, 28% chance of rain · 14°C, light drizzle, 56% chance of rain · 13°C, overcast, 33% chance of rain · 14°C, overcast · 13°C, overcast
- Air qualitymoderate, US AQI 75 · modeled for the area by Copernicus CAMS, not measured by a monitor
From Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0), as of GMT+8. A forecast, not a warning: for warnings, see the alerts above and your local authorities.
Sun and Moon over Shanghai, Sun Nov 8
- Sunrises in the ESE, sets in the WSW, 42° up at its highest at · 10 h 45 min of daylight, 1 min 33 s shorter than yesterday
- Golden hourmorning to , evening to
- Blue hourmorning to , evening to
- Twilightfirst light , last light
- Moonnew Moon, 1% lit: rises in the ESE, sets in the WSW
- Next Moonsnew Mon Nov 9 at , full Tue Nov 24 at
- Sunsets aheadMon · Tue · Wed · Thu · Fri · Sat · Sun
- Next solar eclipse hereJun 1, 2030, partial: 40% of the Sun covered at , 33° up
- Next lunar eclipse hereJul 7, 2028, partial: at its deepest at , 25° up
Times on Shanghai's clock (GMT+8), worked out with astronomy-engine as this page was served.
Over Shanghai
- Next ISS pass you can seeSun Nov 8 to · 37° high · SSW → NE · every pass
How to read it
Shanghai's longest day, around June 21, has 14 hours 11 minutes of daylight, and its shortest, around December 22, has 10 hours 7 minutes.
Sunset in Shanghai comes earliest around November 27, at about 16:51, and latest around June 30, at about 19:02. That earliest sunset comes about 25 days before Shanghai's shortest day, because the Sun's noon drifts against the clock through the year. Shanghai keeps the same clock all year (Asia/Shanghai), so its sunset drifts with no jump.
Shanghai's evening golden hour, the Sun from 6° up to 4° below the horizon, lasts about 45 minutes around the equinoxes; at midsummer about 55 minutes.
Questions
What time is sunset in Shanghai today?
The list on this page gives it, worked out for today on Shanghai's clock, with the coming week's. Through the year Shanghai's sunset moves between about 16:51 and about 19:02.
When is golden hour in Shanghai today?
The list gives Shanghai's morning and evening golden hours, when the Sun is low and its light warm and long-shadowed, and the blue hours just outside them, on Shanghai's clock.
When is the next full Moon in Shanghai?
The list gives the date and time on Shanghai's clock, with today's phase and when the Moon rises and sets there. It's full at the same moment everywhere on Earth, so what differs in Shanghai is only the clock and when the Moon is up.
Are there any alerts near Shanghai right now?
This page lists what's active near Shanghai as it's served, with who issued it, and says which sources it checked and when, and which it couldn't. It's no warning service: in an emergency in Shanghai, follow your local authorities.
What's the weather doing over Shanghai right now?
This page gives Shanghai's conditions now and its next day hour by hour, with the chance of rain or snow, from Open-Meteo. The globe shows the latest satellite clouds and rain radar over Shanghai: drag it to see what's coming.
What is the air quality in Shanghai today?
This page gives Shanghai's US AQI as it's served, with the EPA's word for its band. It comes from Copernicus's CAMS forecast through Open-Meteo: a model for the area around Shanghai rather than a monitor's reading, so a station nearby can differ.
Sources
- astronomy-engine, Don Cross
- GOES-R Series GeoColor (GOES-East, GOES-West, GOES-19, GOES-18), NOAA / CIRA
- MTG GeoColour (Meteosat Third Generation, MTG-I1), EUMETSAT
- Himawari-9 AHI (Himawari), Japan Meteorological Agency
- Global Mosaic of Geostationary Satellite Imagery (GMGSI), NOAA/NESDIS
- NASA Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS, Worldview), NASA EOSDIS
- RainViewer, RainViewer
- Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG, GPM IMERG Early Run), NASA
- Open-Meteo, Open-Meteo
- CAMS air quality forecasts (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), Copernicus / ECMWF
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view | fixed · sunrel · orbit · moon · track |
track | what to follow: iss, tiangong, satgus (Mark Rober's Space Selfie satellite), launch, sunrise, moonrise |
lat, lon | viewer position (fixed) or offset from the subsolar point (sunrel) |
period, inc | orbit period (hours) and inclination (°) |
dist | viewer distance in Earth radii; 0 = orthographic |
mag, rot | size and rotation (°) |
wait | seconds between redraws (default 60) |
time, speed | ISO start time; clock multiplier |
clouds, lights, grid, markers, label | 0 or 1 |
borders | Country borders (Natural Earth), the disputed and undefined ones dashed, and once zoomed in, the countries’ names and the states’ and provinces’ lines, off by default (key B) |
terminator | The day–night line (Sun on the horizon), with the twilight band’s edges dashed: the Sun 6° up and 6° down, off by default (key Z) |
stars | 1, 0, or photo (dimmed like a camera exposed for sunlit Earth) |
sats | all (Starlink + named), featured, or 0 |
aurora, storms, fires, quakes | 0 hides that layer (keys A H F E) |
buoys, buoy | Buoys on the globe, off by default (key Shift+B); buoy=46026 opens that buoy’s window. Click a buoy to open it. |
meteors | The last day’s meteors (Global Meteor Network), recent fireballs and the coming close approaches (NASA/JPL), off by default (key Shift+M) |
iono | Ionosphere wash: tec electron content (GloTEC), drap HF radio absorption (D-RAP), or 0 (key Shift+I) |
lightning, events, snow | lightning, GDACS floods/wildfires/eruptions with NASA's flood map and USGS's US volcano alert levels, snow and ice (keys L D I) |
sst | Sea temperature: temp, anomaly (El Niño, marine heatwaves; 1 means this), or 0 (key O) |
lst | Land surface temperature (VIIRS, MODIS): auto the afternoon’s by day and the night’s by night (1 means this), day, night, or 0 (key Shift+K) |
soil | Soil moisture (SMAP L4): surface the top 5 cm (1 means this), root the root zone to 1 m, or 0 (key Shift+W) |
chl | Chlorophyll-a (MODIS Aqua, Terra), the last eight days: 1 or 0 (key Shift+O; off by default) |
aerosol | Aerosols: aod VIIRS optical depth (1 means this), index the OMPS UV aerosol index, smoke and dust, or 0 (key Shift+Y; off by default) |
waves, wavesrc | Wave height and direction (NOAA GFS-Wave, WAVEWATCH III) as trails that travel with the waves, coloured by height: 1 or 0 (off by default); folder holding its latest.json |
currents, currentsrc | Ocean surface currents (NASA OSCAR, a daily mean, two or three days behind) as trails carried by them, coloured by speed: 1 or 0 (off by default; key Q cycles waves → currents → both → off); folder holding its latest.json |
coral, coralsrc | Coral bleaching heat stress (NOAA Coral Reef Watch degree heating weeks), drawn within 35° of the equator: 1 or 0 (key Shift+R; off by default); folder holding its latest.json |
ash | volcanic ash: EUMETSAT's Ash RGB, and GDACS's eruptions in a window (key Shift+A; off by default) |
aviation | Aviation hazards: SIGMETs worldwide (NOAA AWC) and US airport ground stops and delays (FAA) (key !; off by default) |
radar, smoke, tsunami | RainViewer radar, NOAA HMS smoke, NOAA tsunami alerts (keys R Y Shift+T) |
imagery | live GOES and MTG pictures by day, daily yesterday’s VIIRS when zoomed in, painted neither; with live or daily, the newest night’s lights when zoomed in (key Shift+P; the older truecolor=0/1 still works) |
severe | Severe weather: NWS warning polygons and the SPC day-1 outlook (US), MeteoAlarm's warnings (Europe) (key X) |
imerg | With the radar, satellite rain where there’s no radar: EUMETSAT H SAF (MTG) over Europe and Africa, NASA IMERG elsewhere (R’s middle step turns it off) |
relief | terrain lit by the real Sun, from NOAA ETOPO 2022 (key Shift+E); 0 shows NASA's fixed shaded relief |
reliefscale | terrain relief strength, 0.1–5 (default 1) |
isslive | NASA ISS telemetry panel: track (while tracking the ISS), 1 (always) or 0 (key Shift+L) |
isscam | 1 opens the camera in the ISS telemetry: the station from 120 m above, its solar arrays posed from the live telemetry, and the Earth below (the wheel zooms it, 30–120°) |
firehours | show fires detected within this many hours, 1–24 (default 12) |
launches | 0 hides launch mode (key U) |
bodies, bodyscale | Sun and Moon on/off; enlarge their discs (1 = true size) |
fps | 1 shows the frame-rate display (key ~) |
feeds | 1 shows the data-feeds dashboard: each source's last update and next check (key Shift+U) |
signup | 1 opens the mailing list’s form (the mail button beside the share buttons) |
cloudsrc, satsrc | folders holding each latest.json |
