Viewing ocean sunsets from your apartment at Ravina La Jolla

Spectacular, picture-postcard sunsets over the ocean are visible from Ravina. Depending on apartment, the viewing period can span approximately 22 August to 20 April, i.e. late summer to mid-spring.

Due to Earth's axial tilt, the sunset point oscillates across Ravina's ocean view once per year. Starting as early as late August, the sunset point becomes visible at the right (northern) edge of the ocean view. The point moves each day to the left across the view, decelerating until reaching its leftmost (southernmost) point on the winter solstice, around 22 December.


Sunset near right edge of view from Ravina top floor west balcony--early September and mid April (click to enlarge)



Sunset near center of view from Ravina top floor west balcony--late October, late February(click to enlarge)



Sunset near left edge of view from Ravina top floor west balcony.
Leftmost point occurs at the winter solstice, 21 or 22 December (click to enlarge)


The leftmost sunset point is over one of the White Sands buildings, just to the left of the ocean. The sunset point then starts moving to the right again (north), accelerating and passing the last visible point from Ravina as late as 20 April, about a month after the vernal equinox.

The start/end times and separation between two sunset-over-ocean periods depends on your apartment. For example, the start is later and ends earlier, and the separation lasts longer for lower floor apartments. Upper floor apartments 5, 6 and 9 have in effect no separation...for roughly 14 days centered around December 22 the sun sets over the White Sands building at the left edge, which is almost level with the ocean view (see photo).



Sunset point movement is brought to you by Earth's Axial Tilt

Sunset times