The figure below shows you a compact characterization of the hourly average temperatures for the quarter of the year centered on July. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the color is the average temperature for that hour and day. Seattle, Washington, United States 4, miles away is the far-away foreign place with temperatures most similar to Nantes view comparison. A wet day is one with at least 0. To show variation within the month and not just the monthly total, we show the rainfall accumulated over a sliding day period centered around each day.
The average sliding day rainfall during July in Nantes is essentially constant , remaining about 1. Over the course of July in Nantes, the length of the day is decreasing. From the start to the end of the month, the length of the day decreases by 55 minutes , implying an average daily decrease of 1 minute, 49 seconds , and weekly decrease of 12 minutes, 45 seconds.
The shortest day of the month is July 31 , with 14 hours, 57 minutes of daylight and the longest day is July 1 , with 15 hours, 51 minutes of daylight. Daylight saving time is observed in Nantes during , but it neither starts nor ends during July, so the entire month is in daylight saving time. For reference, on June 21 , the longest day of the year, the Sun rises at AM and sets 15 hours, 56 minutes later, at PM , while on December 21 , the shortest day of the year, it rises at AM and sets 8 hours, 29 minutes later, at PM.
The figure below presents a compact representation of the sun's elevation the angle of the sun above the horizon and azimuth its compass bearing for every hour of every day in the reporting period. The horizontal axis is the day of the year and the vertical axis is the hour of the day. For a given day and hour of that day, the background color indicates the azimuth of the sun at that moment.
The black isolines are contours of constant solar elevation. The figure below presents a compact representation of key lunar data for July The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the colored areas indicate when the moon is above the horizon.
