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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	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...
	San Juan	Peurto Rico	USA	Vertical Dial	1154
	Four vertical dials on a large granite cube, capped by a roof and weather vane. The cube is painted white, the dial gnomons and hour lines, black. The hour lines are delineated every 20 minutes and hour marks in Roman numerals. Fro Sebastian Robiou-Lamarch in "Sundials in the Antilles": "Around 1645, under the rule of Fernando de la Riva y Aguer...
	Norco	California	USA	Horizontal Dial	1155
	This is a Farenholt style sundial, 18-in (460mm) in diameter, with hour lines 6am to 6pm. Gnomon has cut-out star. From article by Steve Lech in The Sun (Friday, May 29, 2026): "The U. S. Naval Hospital at Norco took many of the badly wounded from the attack on Pearl Harbor, and continued to support the navy with medical needs for several years....
	Aiken	South Carolina	USA	Analemmatic Dial	1156
	The analemmatic dial is approximately 12 ft (4m) wide. It has custom concrete hour numbers and Zodiac walkway set in a brick plaza. Hours are longitude offset and run from 7am to 6pm. The Aiken Standard newletter on 22 July 2026 reported, "A recent landscape enhancement project, fund by the Friends of the Aiken Public Library, includes an anal...
	Everett	Washington	USA	Equatorial Dial	1157
	The dial is a simple equatorial made of welded iron 4.5 ft (1.4m) in diameter. The equatorial time arc has welded Roman numbers from 7am to 5pm, standing out in polish against the patina dial. The gnomon is a traditional rod with arrow point and tail. In April 2026 the dial was found with wrong inclination and pointing some 38 degrees off true...
	Millersville	Pennsylvania	USA	Vertical Dial	1158
	This west declining vertical dial shows solar time with Roman hours from X to VII and half-hour marks. In 1899, the class of 1879 celebrated its twentieth anniversary by installing the sundial on the main tower of the Old Library on the south west side. This elegant dial has been preserved in excellent condition, but is hopelessly surrounded by tr...
	Toronto	Ontario	Canada	Equatorial Dial	1159
	The STAIRS dial (Schmoyer-Type Adapted Interactive Reliable Sundial) named for donor Dr. Robert Stairs, is a patina bonze sundial with both a meridian and equatorial diameter of 8-ft (2.4m). The design is reminiscent of the small Schmoyer sundial with flanged analemmatic gnomon. Unlike the Schmoyer design, the gnomon is not stretched, and therefo...
	Virginia Beach	Virginia	USA	Digital Sundial	1160
	This is one of the first digital sundials. It uses a cylindrical tube with time slots for hours and for tens of minutes. Each time slot at the appropriate angle (on the cylinder 30 deg/hour) illuminates up to 7 holes, each filled with a fiber optic connected to a 7-segment display. Not all holes need to carry fibers, depending on 7-segment numer...