# Meridian: Daylight — Sunrise, sunset & golden hour > Sunrise, sunset & golden hour (iPhone/iPad app by Victor Rodrigues.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/meridian-daylight/id6786951649 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Victor Rodrigues](https://appshunter.io/developer/6785485746) - Category: Weather, Reference - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 41 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-07-22 - Data updated: 2026-08-21 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/meridian-daylight/id6786951649/reviews.md ## What is Meridian? Meridian is a single, beautiful screen that shows you exactly where the Sun is right now — and tells you the story of how your daylight is changing through the year. Two facts, fused into one calm, glanceable experience: • Where the Sun is — its height and direction in your sky, right now, from your real location. • How your daylight is trending — the smooth wave of daylight hours across the year, and how fast it's changing today. WHAT'S INSIDE Right Now A living arc of the Sun's path, with the marker exactly where the Sun is at this moment — tall in summer, shallow in winter, dipping below the horizon at night. Today's daylight length, the change versus yesterday, and a countdown to the next sunrise or sunset. Underneath, today's weather: what it's doing now, and the high and low. Tap for height, direction, solar noon, and golden hour. This Year The whole year drawn against the clock — daylight stacked over the night, with civil, nautical and astronomical twilight layered either side, so you can watch your sunrise and sunset march across the months. A faint line traces solar noon, the moment the Sun is genuinely highest, which is almost never twelve o'clock. A plain-English read on today's pace, and a countdown to the next solstice or equinox. The Moon After dark the Moon rides the night sky at its real position and phase — the true lunar face, lit exactly as it is tonight, the right way up for your hemisphere. Moonrise, moonset, how much is lit, and the next full and new. Golden hour & twilight The warm golden hour and deep blue hour, plus civil, nautical and astronomical twilight — first light to last light, computed for wherever you are, and named on the main screen the moment you're in one. Your place, explained A latitude ruler shows where you sit between the tropics and the poles, and the seasonal swing that follows. Save other cities and check their skies at a glance. Elsewhen — travel through time Drag the Sun along its arc, or scroll a precise ruler by hour, day or month, to see the sky at any moment — sunrise last winter, the next solstice, this day a year from now. Widgets Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets with today's daylight, the trend, and where the Sun is. REAL ASTRONOMY, TOTALLY PRIVATE Every position and time is computed on your device using the standard NOAA/Meeus solar algorithms — accurate to well under a minute, checked against published almanac values from the tropics to the poles. No accounts, no analytics, no tracking, and nothing about you is ever sent to us. Made by Victor Rodrigues. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.4 — 2026-08-19 A third page, and thirty years of cloud Swipe past This Year to This Place. Your latitude on a ruler of the whole planet, and how often your particular patch is properly overcast, properly clear, or neither. Sydney gets 61 grey days and 88 clear ones. The other 216 are neither, which explains a lot. Tap through for the sunniest and cloudiest towns in your country. Australia's sunniest is Karratha, on 229 clear days a year. The bleakest is New Norfolk in Tasmania, on eleven. The whole planet ships inside the app, so none of it touches the internet. It also made the download about fifteen times bigger — which is to say roughly 40 MB, or about a minute of video. I have decided that's fine. The Moon, drawn properly Lit from the correct side for where you are and what time it is, craters roughly where they fall, and dimmer in daylight instead of a bright coin stuck on a blue sky. And when it can't be seen at all, it no longer just leaves. You get a small mark in its own phase and the hour it comes back — "visible from 5:12 pm tomorrow" — plus, at night, which way to look. Knowing when is no use if you're facing the wrong wall. Weather, and four days of it Tap the weather line. A tester asked for it, and it has become one of my favourite things in here. Also: the Lock Screen widget stays put now. A clock that goes blank is not a clock. ### 1.3 — 2026-08-10 Weather, at last Under the daylight total: what it's doing now, and today's high and low. Come evening it turns over and starts talking about tomorrow instead — though not before seven, on the principle that a forecast which gives up on your evening while you're still having one is no use to anybody. The year screen has stopped being a fat gold worm It draws the whole day against the clock now, with the light stacked over the night: astronomical twilight, then nautical, then civil, then daylight. Change place to Narvik, in northern Norway — it never gets properly dark there for 168 days of the year. The faint line through the middle is solar noon, the moment the Sun is genuinely highest, which is almost never twelve o'clock. It also answers a question it had never occurred to me to ask. In Sydney the Sun rises earliest on 5 December, the longest day is 22 December, and it doesn't set at its latest until 7 January. Three different dates, and only the middle one is the solstice. It gives you the most daylight. It has never given you the best evening. Widgets, and the Moon First and last light are on the widgets now, and the circular Lock Screen one has become a day clock — noon at the top, midnight at the bottom. The Home Screen ones take their colour from where the Sun actually is rather than sitting in permanent dusk. The Moon's next full and new are in the rotating fact at the bottom. Sunrise and sunset alerts arrive five minutes ahead instead of at the exact instant. The old sunset one turned up to report something that had already finished. Punctual and useless. ### 1.2 — 2026-07-31 The Moon turns up It had been up there the whole time, frankly, and we finally got round to drawing it. After dark the Moon now rides the night sky above the Sun's trough — the real lunar face, seas and craters, lit to tonight's true phase. Beneath it: which phase, how much is lit, and when it rises and sets. South of the equator it arrives the right way up. Then there's the moment itself. When the Sun reaches the horizon the light blooms out from it — a warm swell, a soft ring, a few embers lifting — and you feel a gentle tap. It's easy to miss, so the arc now holds still for a couple of minutes afterwards instead of briskly getting on with the night. If you'd like to know when you're not watching, there's a new sunrise and sunset alert in the info sheet. Off until you say otherwise. Under the daylight total, one quiet fact now turns over as you watch: how much daylight you've banked since midwinter, the date on the far side of the solstice with exactly the same daylight as today, how long twilight lingers tonight. Tap it if you're impatient. First light and last light have moved onto the arc, under sunrise and sunset, where they always belonged. None of it needs the internet. The Sun, the Moon and every time on the screen are worked out on your phone, offline — the only thing that ever leaves it is a coordinate, handed to Apple Maps when you ask what a place is called. Also fixed: our Sun was an optimist. It appeared to clear the horizon up to a quarter of an hour before it actually managed it — worst near the equator. It now waits its turn. The daylight arc sits centred on solar noon rather than drifting off to one side, and "astronomical twilight" is no longer cut short, which was a poor look for a word of that length. ### 1.1 — 2026-07-22 Favourite skies Checking on a city you love used to mean a search and a scroll. Now tap the place name on the Now screen and your favourite skies drop down — each with its local time and a dot the colour of the light it's in right now. One tap moves the whole sky. Star a saved sky on the Locations page to add it to the menu; five fit at a time. The place profile — latitude and seasons — now lives at the foot of that same menu. Also fixed: favouriting your current location no longer loses its star when you reopen the app. ### 1.0 — 2026-07-22 No release notes. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-21.*