OutdoorsTried-and-true tip
Daily sun path as a rhyme for the four directions
A simple rhyme about the sun's daily path helps you find the four directions without a compass or phone.
- Time
- ⏱ 2 min
- Difficulty
- ◆ easy
How to do it
- Find the sun in the morning: that is east.
- At midday the sun stands in the south.
- In the evening it sets in the west.
- Work out north as the opposite direction to south. Rhyme (translated): in the east the sun comes up, in the south it runs its course, in the west it goes down, in the north it is never seen.
Sources
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Morgens steht sie im Osten, mittags im Süden, abends im Westen. Das funktioniert allerdings nur zuverlässig in Mitteleuropa.
