Know where the sun hits
before you buy.

Shade depends on three things: which way the stadium faces, the date and start time of your game, and how high the stands rise around your seat. ShadeMe combines all three — it computes the sun's exact position for your game and ray-traces it against the seating bowl, so you can see which sections are shaded at first pitch, at kickoff, or at any point in the game.

It's different at every stadium, because every stadium faces a different direction. As a rule of thumb the sun moves from east to west, so seats on the west side of a bowl (with the tall stands between them and the afternoon sun) shade first — but the only way to know for your seats and your start time is to check the map for your specific game.

All 30 MLB ballparks, all 32 NFL stadiums, 136 FBS college football stadiums, and the stadium courts at the four biggest US pro tennis events — the US Open, Indian Wells, the Miami Open, and the Cincinnati Open (men's and women's draws play the same courts).

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The sun's position comes from the NOAA solar algorithm with each stadium's real coordinates and orientation, so the sunny vs. shady side and the timing are reliable. The bowl geometry is a calibrated physics model rather than per-stadium CAD, so treat exact section boundaries as approximate and the shaded side, sweep and timing as the dependable signal.