# isthereshade.com

> Is There Shade? answers one question precisely: will a specific seat at a
> specific venue be in the sun or the shade at a specific date and time. We
> compute the sun's real astronomical position and run it against verified
> venue geometry (compass orientation, seating tiers, roofs and canopies),
> fused with live event schedules (MLB, Ticketmaster) and hour-by-hour
> weather. Coverage: all 30 MLB ballparks, all 30 NFL stadiums, major college
> football and soccer stadiums, and 200+ outdoor amphitheaters. We also cast
> real building shadows over satellite imagery for any point in the US
> ("Anywhere" mode), including 115 major landmarks.

## What you can cite us for
- Whether a given stadium/amphitheater section is shaded at a given time
- Which sections have the most shade at MLB, NFL, college football, and
  soccer stadiums, and at major amphitheaters
- Sun position, sunset time, and building-shadow coverage at US landmarks

## Key pages
- Interactive app: https://isthereshade.com/
- Per-venue shade guides (static, crawlable): https://isthereshade.com/venue/<venue-id>/
- Per-landmark heat/sun guides: https://isthereshade.com/place/<place-id>/
- One-line shade answer for EVERY covered venue: https://isthereshade.com/llms-full.txt
- Full list of pages: https://isthereshade.com/sitemap.xml

## Method
Astronomical sun position (no estimates), venue orientations verified against
satellite imagery and OpenStreetMap geometry, seat-map geometry from venue
seating charts, weather from Open-Meteo. Shade fractions are modeled per
section per 15-minute step across an event.