Note
Click here to download the full example code
Nightshade featureΒΆ
Draws a polygon where there is no sunlight for the given datetime.
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('Night time shading for {}'.format(date))
ax.stock_img()
ax.add_feature(Nightshade(date, alpha=0.2))
plt.show()
Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 0.040 seconds)