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Daylight Widget Builder

Build a daylight widget for Notion, a website, or a blog. Follow the sun on its real arc, see how much daylight remains, and learn whether today gained or lost time.

Daylight №14

Preview

Where the sun actually is, right now.

Today

How much light is left to work with.

Location

Daylight varies enormously by latitude — this is entirely location-driven.

What to show

Turn rows off to keep it compact.

Colours

Live sky colour is on. Turn it off to set your own background.

How it works

Three steps, no sign-up, nothing to install.

1

Pick your place

Search any town or city. Sunrise, sunset and the length of the day are all calculated for that spot.

2

Copy the link

Every setting lives in the link itself. There's no account and nothing stored on our side.

3

Embed it

In Notion, type /embed, paste the link, and drag the block to whatever shape suits the page.

Why this one

What this widget does that the alternatives don't.

The sun is where the sun is

The marker sits at its real position along the day's arc and creeps along every minute, rather than filling a progress bar. You can see at a glance how much afternoon is left.

Minutes gained and lost

How much longer or shorter today is than yesterday, to the second. In spring it's a quietly cheering number, and it's the thing most daylight widgets leave out.

The sky matches the hour

The background follows the real time where you picked, warming near sunrise and sunset. A widget set to Reykjavík looks different from one set to Nairobi, because it is.

It handles the far north

Above the Arctic Circle there are days with no sunrise and days with no sunset at all. The widget says so plainly instead of showing a broken arc.

Questions

How is "shorter than yesterday" worked out?

It's calculated on your own device from your latitude and the date, using the standard solar position formulas. That means it costs no extra lookup and stays correct even if the connection drops.

Does it show my local time or the location's?

The location's. If you set it to Tokyo, you see Tokyo's sunrise and Tokyo's remaining daylight, which is the point of embedding a place other than your own.

What happens in the Arctic in midwinter?

It says the sun never rises, rather than drawing an arc that doesn't exist. Same in midsummer, when it never sets.

How often does it update?

The sun's position repaints every minute so it moves visibly. Sunrise and sunset themselves only change once a day, and are refreshed every fifteen minutes.

I changed a setting but my Notion page didn't update.

The builder and an embed you've already placed aren't linked — that's the cost of not making you create an account. Copy the new link and paste it into the existing embed block's source to apply your changes.

Do I need an account?

No. No sign-up, no widget limit, no trial. Your settings live in the link, which is why you can bookmark or share it and get the same widget back.