Sundials of North America

This is a listing of sundials in the North American Sundial Society Registry. The ordering can be changed using the box above. Or you can search for a dial by number, city, state/province, or type. You can also find sundials in a particular state/province by clicking on the right-column list of state/province names.

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	Fairfield	Ohio	USA	Horizontal Dial	1124
	A compound bronze horizontal dial approximately 24in (61cm) in diameter with a second meridian transit gnomon hole to cast a beam of light onto a noon analemma. The outer chapter ring shows Standard Time with Roman numerals, 1 hour marks. The inner chapter ring show Daylight Savings Time in Arabic numerals with 15 minute marks. Note that like most...
	Wabash	Indiana	USA	Horizontal Dial	1125
	This horizontal bronze dial is approximately 12 inches (30cm) in diameter with a heavy green patina. The gnomon long ago was broken off. The inner chapter ring shows local solar time in half hour increments marked in Roman numerals from 6am to 6pm. The dial is decorated by an hour glass. The dial sets on a square 12x12 in (30x30cm) plinth. The p...
	Fairfield	Ohio	USA	Equatorial Dial	1126
	This is a 10-foot (3m) equatorial sundial made of steel and painted green. Gold painted balls are located on the ends of the meridian and equatorial arcs. Following tradition, the gnomon is a rod with a decorative arrow and tail painted gold. The base includes a decorated plat holder with eight compass points and azimuth degrees marked in 10 deg...
	Felton	California	USA	Analemmatic Dial	1127
	This analemmatic sundial is set in a concrete circle about 12 feet (4m) in diameter. It has a plain zodiac walkway with month abbreviations. The hourly numbers are set in an ellipse appropriate for the 37 deg latitude. Unfortunately the dial is in shade during the early morning hours. Dial dates from the park's construction, opened on 22 Feb ...
	Gabarus	Nova Scotia	Canada	Equatorial Dial	1128
	An equatorial sundial of aluminum with stencil-punched hours from 5am to 8pm. No hour marks are used. The sundial works from March 21st until September 21st when the sun is above the celestial equator. The dial was commissioned for the 550th birthday of Nicholas Copernicus (Mikolaj Kopernik) and was developed by Cape Breton's Polish community in...
	Medicine Lodge	Kansas	USA	Equatorial Dial	1129
	This is an Erickson Monumental Equatorial Sundial. The dial face is made of Elberton Blue Granite with a 3-inch (8 cm) Stainless Steel gnomon resting on a concrete base. The circular dial face is 6 feet (2m) in diameter and 6 inches (15cm) thick. The gnomon casts shadows during the spring and summer on the top face of the granite dial and reads ...
	Springfield	Missouri	USA	Analemmatic Dial	1130
	Situated on a peninsula extending into Lake Drummund, this 25-foot (7.6m) double-ring analemmatic (human) sundial is easily seen on Google Earth. The mosaic dial shows both standard (6am-6pm) and daylight savings hours (7am-7pm). The unusual location and available space inspired Schilling to create a sundial with a ginkgo leaf design, noting that ...
	Hannover	Pennsylvania	USA	Vertical Dial	1131
	This is a "virtual" sundial of a horizontal pole near the roof line casting a shadow onto the curved wall in front of the school building.that faces due south. No hour lines or declination lines have been painted on the wall, but there is a shadow "map" indicating where the nodus shadow is throughout the year (see photo #3). As an educational too...
	York	Pennsylvania	USA	Analemmatic Dial	1132
	This analemmatic sundial is in a circular plaza about 20 feet (6m) in diameter. The dial has Arabic numbers 6am to 6pm, centered on 12 noon with no longitude correction (only about 7 minutes of time). The zodiac walkway is unusual in that it reverses the left-right position of June and July, simulating the analemma figure 8 pattern. The adjoinin...
	Mars Hill	North Carolina	USA	Armillary Sphere	1133
	This simple stainless steel armillary is called the "TimeKeeper Sundial" is approximately 20 inches (51cm) in diameter with meridian circle and equatorial timekeeping circle. The gnomon is a classic arrow rod. The hexagon stainless steel pedestal has six medallions at the top with medial motifs. From an article in the Citizen-Times (see link),...
	Oak Ridge	Tennessee	USA	Vertical Dial	1134
	This vertical dial is set on an 11-foot (3.4m) stand very near the front wall of the Museum. The 18-inch (46cm) dial face is eye-catching with a portrait of Albert Einstein hand engraved into stainless steel. The Equation of Time curve is used symbolically as a wave of light that in dual nature becomes a particle to create the photoelectric effect...
	Louisville	Kentucky	USA	Vertical Dial	1135
	This south-facing reclining dial has a weathered brass plate 13-inches (33cm) in diameter sitting on a cut face of a sculptured sphere approximately 21-inches (53cm) in diameter. The dial consists a series of rings: (1) at center is an eight-pointed compass rose and a decorative outer border of small tulip-like figures.(2) next is the abbreviations...
	Mission Viejo	California	USA	Equatorial Dial	1136
	This steel equatorial dial is about 4-foot (1.2m) in diameter with the equatorial and meridian arcs in the shape of thin crescent moons. The 10-minute time marks are appropriately offset for the dial's longitude about 2.3 degrees (9 minutes) east of the pacific time zone meridian. The offset is marked with "Local Solar Noon".. Arabic numbers mark...
	Everett	Washington	USA	Horizontal Dial	1137
	A concrete dial in the shape of the state of Washington, about 30 x 50 in (76 x 127 cm). Radiating from the stainless-steel gnomon are 48 hour lines, providing time lines every quarter hour from 6am to 6pm. Hours are Arabic numbers at the end of hour lines that vary in length throughout the state. Galvanized and painted black are markers for the...
	Labelle	Quebec	Canada	Horizontal Dial	1138
	The dial is a square 1.7m x 1.7m structure in the ground using railroad ties as the perimeter and as the hour lines from 6am to 6pm. Hours are marked in Roman numerals. The style of the gnomon is made out of a portion of a railroad track, supported by odds and ends of railroad ironwork.
	Cedar Rapids	Iowa	USA	Vertical Dial	1139
	A beautiful 6-ft (2m) circular vertical dial, declining to the south-east. At the circle's circumference are hour numbers from 5am to 1pm. Background is white and within the solstice boarders, painted azure blue, showing the time limits from 4:30am to1:30pm. The gnomon is a thin wire rod with a spherical nodus. The dial has white declination li...
	Cincinnati	Ohio	USA	Sun Alignment	1140
	The alignment ring of seven sculptures indicates the time of solar noon and date of the solstices and equinoxes. The sculpture is titled “Seven Vessels Ascending/Descending”. The alignment of the seven sculptures is on a 40 feet (12m) circle of grass surrounded by a circular red brick plaza.. In the very center of the circles is a 2-foot (.6m...
	Cincinnati	Ohio	USA	Horizontal Dial	1141
	This is a 5 foot (1.5m) diameter, bronze horizontal dial sitting on a limestone plinth. The dial tells time from V – XII – VII in 15 minute increments. Underneath the style of the gnomon in relief is a sculpture of Hygieia, goddess of health, cleanliness and hygiene. She is emerging from a snake that wraps around the dial face, representing t...
	Liberty Township	Ohio	USA	Vertical Dial	1142
	A stainless steel, vertical south facing dial, declining 15 degrees to the east. The dial is approximately a 6.5 feet (2m) square. Hours are measured VII – XII – V in winter and 8 – 12 – 6 in the summer, telling time in increments of the half-hours. Equinox, summer and winter solstice lines are shown. The gnomon originates from a sun m...
	Anchorage	Alaska	USA	Equatorial Dial	1143
	A 10 inch (25cm) wide, cylindrical-segment equatorial dial approximately 8 inches (20cm) high, fabricated from a section of large PVC pipe. The dial face is aluminum sheet bonded to the PVC pipe and marked by photochemical engraving with hour lines showing analemmas to correct for EOT; hour lines are corrected for longitude and show both standard a...
	Vernon	British Columbia	Canada	Heliochronometer	1144
	This heliochronometer, called a Gard Clock Hybrid Sundial, is a precision instrument constructed by 3D printing. The dial featured in the photos below has a large equatorial ring 7.7 inches (19.5cm) in diameter with an inner geared ring of 144 teeth. The teeth engage a planetary gear system to a secondary minute dial for accurate time reading. It ...
	Canmore	Alberta	Canada	Vertical Dial	1145
	This 2.13m x 2.13m (7ft x 7ft) vertical sundial is constructed of aluminum with a powder coat presenting a motif of the Three Sisters Mountains (Îyârhe Nakoda, the traditional language of the First Nations Stoney Nakoda, also refers to the peaks as the Three Sisters). The dial declines S 55 deg to the West, resulting in late morning hours and com...
	Simsbury	Connecticut	USA	Vertical Dial	1146
	Called the Millennium Sundial, this vertical dial is made of wire rods and from a distance is nearly invisible. It declines S-SW and has small hour disks in Roman numerals from 7am to 6pm. The dial also has wire solstice boundaries. This starts to sound like a poorly designed dial, but in fact is a very fine dial, casting its shadow of time onto...
	Erie	Colorado	USA	Analemmatic Dial	1147
	Analemmatic human sundial, marked with both standard and daylight saving hours (5am-9pm MDT) arranged on an ellipse determined by the latitude.. The whole sundial is 10 ft (3m) in diameter, surrounded by a gravel moat. The zodiac walkway is encompassed in a circular center sun, with months marked in blue. Vertical sandstone stones at the edge mar...
	Northville	Michigan	USA	Analemmatic Dial	1148
	This is a human (analemmatic) sundial built into a grassy landscape. At the center is the Zodiac Walkway with stone slabs labeled with the months of the year, arranged in two vertical columns from January through December. A plaque indicates the user to stand on this central walkway according to the month of the year. An ellipse of hour marks surr...
	Vernon	British Columbia	Canada	Heliochronometer	1149
	3D-Printed replica of an early 20th-century Pilkington & Gibbs Heliochronometer. In 1906, G. Gibbs applied for a patent for a novel sundial design—the Universal Equinoctial Mean Time Heliochronometer. This sundial represented a technical pinnacle of early modern sundials, combining mechanical ingenuity with practical timekeeping capabilities. Its...
	Shafer	Minnesota	USA	Horizontal Dial	1150
	This 9 ft (3m) tall horizontal dial, called "Time is of the Essence", is a fully functioning sundial and sculptural installation that casts shadows and reflected light onto hour lines. Built with three layers of mirrored stainless steel and laser-cut acrylic, the sculpture casts an almost 50-foot rainbow spectrum that moves slowly from west to east...
	Key West	Florida	USA	Sun Alignment	1151
	This alignment sculpture, "Wavehenge", was conceived as a site specific piece for people to sit by the water and enjoy the view. It also functions as a daily sundial and solar calendar — the shadow lands exactly on the curved outline of one ‘raft’ bench when the hour and minute of the day matches the month and day of the year. Specifically, i...
	Dothan	Alabama	USA	Equatorial Dial	1152
	This equatorial sundial (called an Armillary by its owners) is made from 17 species of wood and with plinth stands 7-ft (2.1m) tall. The gnomon is brass with a traditional wood arrow point and tail. The base holding the equatorial dial is a circular top with compass rose of inlaid wood. The wood dial and base sit on a circular plinth dais of con...
	Scituate	Massachusetts	USA	Horizontal Dial	1153
	Horizontal sundial for latitude 42 degrees, made from a rough hewn, rectangular sandstone slab and resting on top of three courses of granite field-stone. Roman numerals and hour lines are inscribed with a sharp tool on the surface, V-XII-VII. The gnomon was originally an iron rod set at an angle without any secondary support. It has corroded an...