Sundial

Connected Sites: 40

A sundial is a device that measures time by the position of the Sun.

Connected Sites

  • Kairouan
    Kairouan
    Tunisia
    Inscribed: 1988
    3.03
    146
    4
    Inside the mosque
  • Safranbolu
    Safranbolu
    Turkiye
    Inscribed: 1994
    3.04
    86
    3
    19C, in the courtyard of Köprülü Mehmet Paşa Cami
    See www.lonelyplanet.com
  • Incense Route of the Negev
    Inscribed: 2005
    2.92
    81
    7
    Mamshit
  • Old Havana
    Inscribed: 1982
    3.82
    179
    6
    At Cabana fortress
  • Strasbourg
    Inscribed: 1988
    3.52
    395
    10
    At the masons loge at the cathedral museum, formerly at the cathedral.
  • Aflaj irrigation system
    Inscribed: 2006
    2.40
    107
    7
    At Falaj Al-Muyassar
  • Litomysl Castle
    Inscribed: 1999
    2.75
    142
    10
    2 of them
  • Val di Noto
    Inscribed: 2002
    3.35
    208
    11
    Church of San Nicolò l'Arena (Catania)
    See www.waymarking.com
  • Santo Domingo
    Santo Domingo
    Dominican Republic
    Inscribed: 1990
    3.00
    88
    5
    Reloj de Sol on Calle Las Damas: built in 1753. It is one of the oldest sundials in the Americas
    See www.atlasobscura.com
  • Mantua and Sabbioneta
    Inscribed: 2008
    3.18
    194
    7
    At Piazza delle Erbe in Mantua
  • Champagne
    Inscribed: 2015
    3.16
    221
    9
    Sundial from 1777 on the wall of the courtyard of the Château de Montebello (Nomination file, p. 73)
  • Blenheim Palace
    Blenheim Palace
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 1987
    3.06
    232
    12
    Equatorial sundial
  • Westminster
    Westminster
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 1987
    3.61
    632
    16
    St Margaret's Church has 4 sundials. See description including how wall mounted sundials have to vary in type according to the direction of the wall they are placed on in this "Thames Sundial Trail" link (covers Sundials along the Thames Walk from Westminster to Greenwich)!
    See www.sundials.co.uk
  • Sun Temple, Konarak
    Inscribed: 1984
    3.61
    35
    6
    Vertical sundial
  • Imperial Palace
    Inscribed: 1987
    4.19
    334
    11
    Forbidden City, Beijing: equatorial sundial
  • Dacian Fortresses
    Inscribed: 1999
    2.89
    89
    11
    Solar Disc at Sarmizegetusa Regia
  • Caral-Supe
    Inscribed: 2009
    3.41
    62
    8
    A monolith has been found that might have been used as a sundial
  • Amiens Cathedral
    Inscribed: 1981
    3.41
    221
    12
    On the south face of the south tower of the west façade, at the level of the western buttress, we can see a sundial, surmounted by the statue of an angel.
    See upload.wikimedia.org
  • Vienna
    Vienna
    Austria
    Inscribed: 2001
    4.02
    592
    20
    Hofburg
  • Singapore Botanic Gardens
    Inscribed: 2015
    3.10
    274
    12
    Sundial Garden
  • Selimiye Mosque
    Inscribed: 2011
    3.47
    115
    4
    see AB ev
  • Salzburg
    Salzburg
    Austria
    Inscribed: 1996
    3.75
    453
    17
    at St. Peter Monastery
  • Paris, Banks of the Seine
    Inscribed: 1991
    4.19
    681
    20
    There are sundials on the facades of the Cour d'honneur of Les Invalides.
    See fr.wikipedia.org
  • Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles
    Inscribed: 2021
    3.93
    253
    12
    In the cloister of the novitiate of the Basilica of St. Anthony of Padua there is a sundial bearing the inscription "Your hour is always uncertain".
    See it.wikipedia.org
  • Monticello
    Monticello
    United States of America
    Inscribed: 1987
    3.22
    163
    12
    Globe dial
  • Medici Villas and Gardens
    Inscribed: 2013
    3.07
    233
    8
    La Petraia
  • Maritime Greenwich
    Maritime Greenwich
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 1997
    3.14
    411
    10
    Because of its connections with ?time? Greenwich has several sundials. 2 modern ones within the inscribed area are Dolphin Sundial ? near the National Maritime Museum Tearooms. See Millennium Sundial at the Link provided. Situated near the boating lake in Greenwich Park. An interesting issue here is that, despite its recent installation, the sundial shows a GPS location of W 000? 00.093 . This represents a couple of metres and is due to an installation error ? though the exact meridian at Greenwich is also slightly ?out? when measured by GPS
    See www.geograph.org.uk
  • Kraków
    Kraków
    Poland
    Inscribed: 1978
    4.02
    438
    19
    Nodus-based sundial - "The shadow of the cross-shaped nodus moves along a hyperbola which shows the time of the year,indicated here by the zodiac figures" (wiki)
  • Jantar Mantar
    Inscribed: 2010
    3.16
    187
    6
    The Giant Sundial, known as the Samrat Yantra (The Supreme Instrument) is the world's largest sundial, standing 27 meters tall
  • Historic Cairo
    Inscribed: 1979
    3.66
    299
    11
    At the Citadel, dating from 1291
  • Gusuku of Ryukyu
    Inscribed: 2000
    2.83
    68
    10
    At Shuri Castle. The sundial displayed high noon and the hours before and after that. A water clock was used by the Ryuykyans to tell the more precise time.
  • Forts and Castles Gold Coast
    Inscribed: 1979
    2.87
    57
    8
    Horizontal sundial made by the Dutch in front of Elmina castle
  • Florence
    Inscribed: 1982
    4.45
    588
    15
    At the facade of the Santa Maria Novella church
  • Dengfeng
    Inscribed: 2010
    3.36
    68
    5
  • Changdeokgung Palace Complex
    Inscribed: 1997
    3.15
    231
    7
    Angbuilgudae (Pedestal of Hemerspherical Sundial) "Total of 10 Angubuilgu still exist. They can be found in Changgyeonggung Palace, Changdeokgung Palace, Gyeongbokgung Palace, and Deoksugung Palace." - Korean Cultural Heritage 2 (2007) pg 169
  • Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
    Inscribed: 2013
    2.98
    184
    8
    At the custodian's house (nom file)
  • Belfries
    Belfries
    Belgium, France
    Inscribed: 1999
    2.95
    443
    17
    Several belfries have sundials: Abbeville, Amiens (Nomination file, p. 46, 47) The belfry of Aalst has a sundial dating from 1600 on its front.
    See nl.wikipedia.org
  • Bardejov Town
    Inscribed: 2000
    2.83
    142
    7
    at the synagogue
  • Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
    Inscribed: 2021
    2.56
    169
    6
    At the Wedding Tower
    See de.wikipedia.org
  • Sintra
    Sintra
    Portugal
    Inscribed: 1995
    3.88
    404
    14
    Pena Palace
    See en.wikipedia.org