Sunlight in Congrés, street by street

District 5. We measured 101 buildings and 219 façades facing the street.

The sun changes with the floor

In Congrés, 26% of façades get direct sun on 21 December on the first floor, 44% on the middle floor and 53% on the top floor.

26%First floorof façades get sun on 21 December

44%Middle floorof façades get sun on 21 December

53%Top floorof façades get sun on 21 December

Streets from most to least winter sun

Streets ordered by the winter sun of their sunniest side on a middle floor (median of its buildings)
Street	Buildings	Winter sun by side, middle floor	Daytime noise
Carrer de Sant Joan Evangelista	1	Whole street Lots of direct sun in winter	62.5 dB
Carrer de Sant Marc	16	SW side Plenty of direct sun in winter NE side No direct sun in winter	57.5 dB
Carrer de Sant Lluc	20	SW side Plenty of direct sun in winter NE side No direct sun in winter	57.5 dB
Carrer del Doctor Modrego	28	SW side Some direct sun in winter SW side Some direct sun in winter	57.5 dB
Avinguda del Marquès de Mont-roig	11	SE side Some direct sun in winter	67.5 dB
Avinguda d'Alfons XIII	6	N side Little direct sun in winter	67.5 dB
Carrer de Sant Mateu	15	NW side Little direct sun in winter NW side Little direct sun in winter	52.5 dB
Carrer de Tortosa	20	NE side No direct sun in winter	62.5 dB
Passatge de Sant Elies	11	NE side No direct sun in winter	62.5 dB
Plaça de la Regalèssia	1	Whole street No direct sun in winter	62.5 dB
Avinguda del Congrés Eucarístic	2	Whole street No direct sun in winter	67.5 dB

A side counts if it has 5 or more measured buildings; if neither does, the whole street is shown. Streets with 15 or more buildings have their own page, with the three floors of each side.

Which orientation and which side win

Façades facing south-west get the most sun on 21 December: a median of 4 h 56 min on a middle floor. Those facing north: no sun.

Which way the façades in Congrés face: the more façades facing a side, the longer its petal; the more sun they get on 21 December, the deeper its ochre.

SWsouth-west · 54 façades4 h 56 min
SEsouth-east · 46 façades4 h 11 min
Eeast · 1 façade51 min
NEnorth-east · 71 façadesNo sun
NWnorth-west · 46 façadesNo sun
Nnorth · 1 façadeNo sun

Streets with sun and less noise

At least some winter sun on their sunniest side and less daytime noise than the neighbourhood median.

Carrer de Sant Joan EvangelistaLots of direct sun in winter on the sunniest side · 62.5 dB by day
Carrer de Sant MarcPlenty of direct sun in winter on the sunniest side · 57.5 dB by day
Carrer de Sant LlucPlenty of direct sun in winter on the sunniest side · 57.5 dB by day
Carrer del Doctor ModregoSome direct sun in winter on the sunniest side · 52.5 dB by day

What we measure

The report's winter scale, from “No winter sun” to “Lots of winter sun”, based on direct sun on the window on 21 December, 1 m from the façade at window-centre height. It comes from the ICGC's 25 cm LiDAR (2022 flight) and the sun's position, minute by minute.

Here the figure is the scale for each side of the street and each floor, the median of its buildings, not of one flat. The exact minute count for a specific flat, with its window, its floor and whether it faces the street or the courtyard, is the report.

Trees and buildings put up after the 2022 flight are not included.

Sun Seeker, ShadeMap, SunCalc and Asoleo: what each one measures

Your flat, with its window and its floor

This page is about the street. Your window may face a courtyard, a chamfered corner or a building that does not weigh in here. The €19 report measures yours, minute by minute, all year.

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