Soltimmarkollen
How much has the sun actually shone where you live? A data visualisation project that now lives on in Dagsljus Sverige.
Lives on in Dagsljus Sverige – sunshine hours.
Maturity
- Idea(completed)
- Prototype(completed)
- Alpha(completed)
- Beta(current stage)
- Promoted
Archived No longer developed. Kept as history, and for the curious.
About the project
Soltimmarkollen (roughly “the sunshine-hours checker”) started with a simple question: was it really as sunless a summer as it felt? The answer was in the measurement series from SMHI, the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, and the app made them easy to read for a single town.
The project showed that the interest was there, but also that it belonged next to daylight. So it is archived here and lives on as part of Dagsljus Sverige (“Daylight Sweden”).
Current state
What the project got to be
- Measured sunshine hours per town from SMHI's open observation data
- Deviation from the 1991–2020 normal and year-on-year comparison
- A sun calendar with the whole year as 365 clickable squares
- Records, a map of Sweden's measuring network and pages per weather station
What never got finished
- The app has been shut down as a standalone service – the feature lives in Dagsljus Sverige
Why is this project on BSite?
- Replaced by a newer project
Sunshine hours and daylight belonged together more than they stood apart. Soltimmarkollen was therefore folded into Dagsljus Sverige, where the same data sits in a bigger context.
Screenshots
The town page for Hudiksvall with today's sunshine hours, the last few days and the deviation from the normal. 
The sun calendar – the whole year as 365 squares, where the colour shows how much the sun shone each day.
Development log
Shut down as a standalone app. The data moved to Dagsljus Sverige.