midday sun
Overhead at twelve
The midday sun is the sun at or near its highest point in the sky, typically around noon.
This is when sunlight is most direct and intense: Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun.
The phrase often emphasizes harsh or oppressive heat: We rested in the shade to escape the midday sun.
- noonDay's exact middle
- high noonSolar zenith, or confrontation
- solar noonSun at peak altitude
- scorchingExtremely hot, burning
- heatTransferred thermal energy
beating down · zenith · blazing · shadows · sweltering · glare · bright · harsh · desert · siesta · high · overhead · squint · sunburn · sweat · blistering · radiant · UV rays
- lightshine, rays, moonlight, beam, bright
- sunsol, solar, sunspots, solar flares, solar radiation
- summersummer, summertime, midsummer, summer solstice, solstice
- middaynoon, twelve o'clock, high noon, noontime, solar noon
- light conditionspartial shade, dappled light, indirect light, shade, deep shade
- Natural Lightingnatural light, golden hour, blue hour, diffused light, backlighting
midday sunmidnight
Twelve o'clock at night
dead of night · middle of the night · witching hour · dawn · dusk
midday sunpitch black
Total absence of light
moonless night · darkness · eclipse · night sky · shadow
mid, midday, middays, middle, middling, amid, midnight, midway, midpoint