Gardener in green blouse watering plants on the terrace

Shadowmap Home

Create Your Dream Garden! Designing with the Sun.

Shadowmap Home is our solution for gardeners and landscapers. Sunlight is crucial for healthy plant growth, while shade is equally important for creating comfortable outdoor spaces. Gain valuable insights into the sun path over your gardening projects or landscapes to optimize plant placement and design for year-round beauty and vitality.

Avoid costly mistakes and ensure your gardens and landscapes thrive by making informed decisions with Shadowmap Home.

Get started

More infos

Trusted by gardeners around the world.

Shadowmap Home

Create Your Dream Garden! Designing with the Sun.

Avoid costly mistakes and ensure your gardens and landscapes thrive by making informed decisions with Shadowmap Home.

Get started

More infos

Trusted by gardeners around the world.

Shadowmap Home

Create Your Dream Garden! Designing with the Sun.

Avoid costly mistakes and ensure your gardens and landscapes thrive by making informed decisions with Shadowmap Home.

Get started

More infos

Trusted by gardeners around the world.

Does this sound familiar?

I need to find the sunniest spots for my mediterranean and tropical plants.

Intuitively view the sun path over the property in 3D. Go to your location on the map and use the time or date slider to get accurate insights into the sun exposure of the listing.

Where should I put my raised garden bed?

Plan your home extensions with the sun. Sunlight is crucial for the prospering of your green darlings, as is shade for a cool summer barbecue.

Get started

Does this sound familiar?

I need to find the sunniest spots for my mediterranean and tropical plants.

Intuitively view the sun path over the property in 3D. Go to your location on the map and use the time or date slider to get accurate insights into the sun exposure of the listing.

Where should I put my raised garden bed?

Plan your home extensions with the sun. Sunlight is crucial for the prospering of your green darlings, as is shade for a cool summer barbecue.

Get started

Does this sound familiar?

I need to find the sunniest spots for my mediterranean and tropical plants.

Intuitively view the sun path over the property in 3D. Go to your location on the map and use the time or date slider to get accurate insights into the sun exposure of the listing.

Where should I put my raised garden bed?

Plan your home extensions with the sun. Sunlight is crucial for the prospering of your green darlings, as is shade for a cool summer barbecue.

Get started

I was curious about how the sun hits our property as we are doing some landscaping work. It's a really cool product – congratulations.

App Store

I was curious about how the sun hits our property as we are doing some landscaping work. It's a really cool product – congratulations.

App Store

Perfect garden planning tool 👍🌞🤩

App Store

This is such a great tool! I really didn’t think I would be able to find exactly what I was looking for, which is to plan my garden in our soon-to-be home according to the sunlight (without going to the current home owners). I searched for it without much hope, and you were the first result!

In-app Feedback

GET SHADOWMAP home

Sunshine and shade: Grow your perfect garden.

Start living with the sun

why shadowmap home?

Invest your money where it really matters.

See the exact sunlight exposure of your future home by making use of high-quality maps and 3D data. Understand and compare the sun path and natural light situation of different properties around the world. Safe time and skip unnecessary viewings by visualizing lighting conditions remotely with Shadowmap Home. Already have a home? Observe the sun path over your house and utilize the power of the Sun more efficiently. Plan your next gardening project, make best use of the space on your balcony or terrace, or save energy by identifying the most exposed areas of your property or rental home. Shadowmap Home allows for even more accurate sun & shade visualization, unlocking better quality and display options for 3D terrain and building data.

Photograph

Visualization

Precise Visualization of Sunlight & Shadow

Global shading analysis, real-time results.

Individual Shapes & Objects

Draw and extrude shapes to create basic 3D structures or place prefabricated 3D objects like cuboids, cylinders, roof shapes or trees.

Unrestricted Time & Date Change

Access your online sunlight simulation via easy slider input, and find out what time is golden hour.

Satellite + Outdoor Base Maps

High-quality maps for every use case.

Sun Path & Compass

Keep track of the Sun and plan for your project. This feature is perfect for sunlight photography.

Full Camera Freedom

Complete range of motion and FOV. Perfect for drone shot planning or architectural visualizations.

Photograph

Visualization

Precise Visualization of Sunlight & Shadow

Global shading analysis, real-time results.

Individual Shapes & Objects

Draw and extrude shapes to create basic 3D structures or place prefabricated 3D objects like cuboids, cylinders, roof shapes or trees.

Unrestricted Time & Date Change

Access your online sunlight simulation via easy slider input, and find out what time is golden hour.

Satellite + Outdoor Base Maps

High-quality maps for every use case.

Sun Path & Compass

Keep track of the Sun and plan for your project. This feature is perfect for sunlight photography.

Full Camera Freedom

Complete range of motion and FOV. Perfect for drone shot planning or architectural visualizations.

Get started

Start living with the sun

Pricing

Start living with Shadowmap Home

Gardening is all about working with nature! Gain complete confidence about sunlight exposure and shading in your garden. Shadowmap Home's interactive 365-day sunlight simulation lets you identify the best spots for your plants, optimize growth conditions, and plan your garden layout across all seasons. Enhance your garden’s health and beauty by making informed decisions and avoid any unexpected challenges – it’s likely worth it for thriving plants and a vibrant garden.

Easiest way to try Shadowmap.
No credit card needed.

free

Shadowmap Free

Sun path & compass

Change time of current day

Worldwide 3D buildings + terrain

Worldwide 3D trees

Start for free

No registration required

For home seekers, home owners & home improvers

Shadowmap Home

8.33

/month

Annually

Monthly

100

billed annually –

cancel anytime

NEW

Edit the 3D World

Save your own editable 3D world – edit existing data, place objects & share it

First-person view incl. variable focal length

Extended 3D objects

(freeform, roofs, trees)

Satellite + Outdoor maps

High-quality 3D buildings

(Vienna, Tokyo, Berlin & Munich)

Choose any date

Full camera freedom

High quality rendering options

Show floors on building facades

Change standard building height

Global weather/UV forecast

Upgrade to Home

For home seekers, home owners & home improvers

Shadowmap Home

8.33

/month

Annually

Monthly

100

billed annually –

cancel anytime

NEW

Edit the 3D World

Save your own editable 3D world – edit existing data, place objects & share it

First-person view incl. variable focal length

Extended 3D objects

(freeform, roofs, trees)

Satellite + Outdoor maps

High-quality 3D buildings

(Vienna, Tokyo, Berlin & Munich)

Choose any date

Full camera freedom

High quality rendering options

Show floors on building facades

Change standard building height

Global weather/UV forecast

Upgrade to Home

See how Shadowmap compares to other solar & shadow tools

Compare tools

Check out our other solutions.

Show all plans

FAQs

How does Shadowmap compare to other solar & shadow tools?

I only need Shadowmap for a short time, what can I do?

How can I see the solar potential of my home? 🏡

Can I add buildings 🏢 or other 3D objects?

What happened to the Shadowmap Pro subscription?

This is not you?

See our other use cases

Photograph of family home with garden and trees in the shade

Home owner

Sunshine and shade: Improve your home.

Home seeker

Sunshine and shade: Find your new home.

LEARN MORE

Illuminating insights

Shadowmap 3D Solar Analytics with Google 3D Tiles in London

3D Solar Analytics Enables Instant Solar Evaluation for your PV Installation Project

Continuing on the topic of solar energy and solar potential analysis, let’s explore what makes a solar tool great for everyone.

Shadowmap for Home Seekers

How much sunlight does your future home really get? Find out with Shadowmap Home.

Aerial view of Paris with Eiffel Tower and tree boulevards

Trees in the City

With our latest updates to Shadowmap, 3D tree models are now available worldwide.

LEARN MORE

Illuminating insights

3D Solar Analytics Enables Instant Solar Evaluation for your PV Installation Project

Continuing on the topic of solar energy and solar potential analysis, let’s explore what makes a solar tool great for everyone.

Shadowmap for Home Seekers

How much sunlight does your future home really get? Find out with Shadowmap Home.

Trees in the City

With our latest updates to Shadowmap, 3D tree models are now available worldwide.

LEARN MORE

Illuminating insights

The Infrared Starvation Crisis: How Modern Lifestyles and Lighting are Undermining Our Health

Neuroscientist Glen Jeffery spoke to us about the importance of infrared and sunlight for public health.

Shadowmap for Home Seekers

How much sunlight does your future home really get? Find out with Shadowmap Home.

Trees in the City

With our latest updates to Shadowmap, 3D tree models are now available worldwide.

Download the Shadowmap App

The world's 1st interactive sunlight & shadow app. Visualize light for any location, time, and date. Perfect for solar energy, real estate, architecture, photography & more!

GET IT ON

Notify me about the release!

Helping Humans find the Sun – since 2021

Subscribe to the Shadowmap Newsletter

Shadowmap is the award-winning app for global realtime 3D sunlight simulation

Shadowmap Home

Create Your Dream Garden! Designing with the Sun.

Shadowmap Home

Create Your Dream Garden! Designing with the Sun.

Shadowmap Home

Create Your Dream Garden! Designing with the Sun.

Does this sound familiar?

Does this sound familiar?

Does this sound familiar?

Invest your money where it really matters.

Start living with Shadowmap Home

FAQs

See our other use cases

Illuminating insights

Illuminating insights

Illuminating insights

Download the Shadowmap App

Subscribe to the Shadowmap Newsletter

Quick Links

Use Cases

Legal