The day · Skopje, North Macedonia
Night · 556 min remaining
Sun 26.2° below the horizon, in the west · Pannonian Basin & Eastern Plains
Conditions
Clear and calm
Clear, bright and still. Pleasant conditions, but difficult fishing: without cloud cover, fish move deep or under cover and feed mainly at dawn and dusk.
Go out at first light or in the last hours before sunset; midday is least productive.
The day, phase by phase
Current phase · 19:05–05:39
10h 34m
Night
Current sun position. Maximum altitude today: 42.4°.
No solar input at all. What happens now runs on stored heat, on the moon, and on the animals that evolved to work while nothing can see them.
Fish active
Brown troutbest now
The most nocturnal trout there is. After dark the big ones leave cover and hunt the shallows and the tailouts.
Bright, still conditions push fish deep, into shade and under cover. Fish early and late.
Garden species active
Ground beetlebest now
Running the soil surface after dark, taking slugs, cutworms and larvae. One of the best predators a garden has.
Earthwormbest now
At the surface after dark and in wet weather, pulling leaves down into the burrow.
Slugsbest now
Out on everything, feeding hardest between midnight and first light, and all day when it is wet.
Maximum photosynthesis and water loss. Beds dry quickly and transplants wilt.
Inactive in this phase
Northern pike · Rainbow trout · Honey bee · Lady beetle
Interactive
The Earth's rotation and the day at Skopje
Rotate the Earth, or use the arrows, to follow the location from sunrise to noon, sunset and night. One full rotation is one day.
Night at home
Still dark. Keep turning — home is coming round toward the sunlight.
One whole turn = 24 hours
Turn to:
Seen from above the North Pole, the Earth turns anticlockwise — west to east — so the Sun comes up in the east. One whole turn takes 24 hours.
Say it like this
- Age 2“Round and round! Where is our house? Is it day or night?”
- Age 4“When our house turns toward the Sun, it's day. When it turns away, it's night.”
- Age 6“The Sun doesn't really move across the sky — we do, riding on the turning Earth. How many hours does one whole turn take?”
Go outside: Stand in the same spot at breakfast, lunch and supper and point to where the Sun is — never look straight at it. It moves from east to west because we are turning.
Local guide
Gardening, fishing and foraging for Skopje this week.
Pannonian Basin & Eastern Plains
The ecological region and its species.
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Day length, the moon, and air and water temperature through the year.
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