.. DO NOT EDIT.
.. THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY SPHINX-GALLERY.
.. TO MAKE CHANGES, EDIT THE SOURCE PYTHON FILE:
.. "gallery/lines_and_polygons/nightshade.py"
.. LINE NUMBERS ARE GIVEN BELOW.

.. only:: html

    .. note::
        :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note

        :ref:`Go to the end <sphx_glr_download_gallery_lines_and_polygons_nightshade.py>`
        to download the full example code

.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title

.. _sphx_glr_gallery_lines_and_polygons_nightshade.py:


Nightshade feature
------------------

Draws a polygon where there is no sunlight for the given datetime.

.. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 8-25



.. image-sg:: /gallery/lines_and_polygons/images/sphx_glr_nightshade_001.png
   :alt: Night time shading for 1999-12-31 12:00:00
   :srcset: /gallery/lines_and_polygons/images/sphx_glr_nightshade_001.png
   :class: sphx-glr-single-img





.. code-block:: Python

    import datetime

    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

    import cartopy.crs as ccrs
    from cartopy.feature.nightshade import Nightshade


    fig = plt.figure(figsize=(10, 5))
    ax = fig.add_subplot(1, 1, 1, projection=ccrs.PlateCarree())

    date = datetime.datetime(1999, 12, 31, 12)

    ax.set_title(f'Night time shading for {date}')
    ax.stock_img()
    ax.add_feature(Nightshade(date, alpha=0.2))
    plt.show()


.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-timing

   **Total running time of the script:** (0 minutes 0.305 seconds)


.. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_lines_and_polygons_nightshade.py:

.. only:: html

  .. container:: sphx-glr-footer sphx-glr-footer-example

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter

      :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: nightshade.ipynb <nightshade.ipynb>`

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python

      :download:`Download Python source code: nightshade.py <nightshade.py>`


.. only:: html

 .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature

    `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery <https://sphinx-gallery.github.io>`_