Distance from home for all 887 published sunrises

Nearest Sunrise: 21 ft
Avg. Distance: 16.0 mi
Furthest Sunrise: 363 mi

14,198 total miles

This number, 14,198 miles, is certainly inflated. The true metric is miles from home, rather than miles traveled. For example, a week in Detroit required me to travel nearly 500 miles to get there, but once I was there, I was only traveling a few miles to sunrise.

However, it also doesn't calculate the round trip, or actual drive distance. The numbers you see here are as the crow flies (also known as the haversine formula), from my humble home to where the published sunrise photo was taken.

On April 9, 2020 I moved to a new apartment. And the data included reflects this difference. This move, now 650 feet from doorstep to toes in water, reflects the drop in average distance beginning in Spring 2020. All of this ties into a greater subject of traveling to and from sunrise, which is all part of the morning decision making, cost of executing this project, and ties into what makes the perfect sunrise experience.

Distance to sunrise by year

	Avg. Distance	Nearest Sunrise	Furthest Sunrise	Total Miles
2019	22.8 mi	1,150 ft	363 mi	8,335 mi
2020	6.5 mi	499 ft	311 mi	2,361 mi
2021^*	18.9 mi	621 ft	310 mi	1,758 mi
2022^*	30.1 mi	624 ft	303 mi	1,743 mi
^*Data is updated as I publish more sunrises

Distance to sunrise by month

	Avg. Distance	Nearest Sunrise	Furthest Sunrise	Total Miles
Jan	12.4 mi	708 ft	242 mi	969 mi
Feb	22.2 mi	1,079 ft	311 mi	1,466 mi
Mar	25.2 mi	678 ft	352 mi	1,789 mi
Apr	6.6 mi	499 ft	272 mi	464 mi
May	19.5 mi	643 ft	310 mi	1,543 mi
Jun	2.2 mi	638 ft	45 mi	165 mi
Jul	25.0 mi	620 ft	304 mi	1,872 mi
Aug	3.3 mi	589 ft	64 mi	256 mi
Sep	19.5 mi	21 ft	300 mi	1,480 mi
Oct	2.1 mi	621 ft	23 mi	164 mi
Nov	41.7 mi	642 ft	363 mi	2,963 mi
Dec	15.0 mi	645 ft	272 mi	1,066 mi

Further questions, improvements, and notes...

Ideally, I'd like to replace the haversine formula with a directions API to get a more accurate commute. For example, Marquette to Belle Isle as the crow flies is 363 miles, but driving directions is closer to 460 miles. However, there is a direct cost with that many calls to a directions API, and I can't take on any more project costs that aren't directly covered.
How much work will it take to add a parameter to the sunrises where I was traveling?
I would also like to make note if I walked or if I drove. It's pretty safe to say that almost all distances greater than 3,000 feet (or so) I drove rather than walked. Most of the longer walks longer than that are memorable enough, and few enough, that they could manually be tagged.
April appears to be an anomaly. The furthest sunrise is just 6 miles away, significantly lower than most months. It raises a question for me. Is it an uninspired month? Do I not like to travel in April? There's a lot more data to come.
October, on the other hand, is very simple to explain the drop in further distance. October is in the middle of the Fall Gauntlet, when I'm hustling with Plaidurday and especially Fresh Coast Film Festival, making it difficult to get far away for sunrise.
How does this apply to travel costs and expenses for the project? At 16 miles in one direction, that's actually a 32 mile round trip. That's a lot of time and gas.
There is a lot more data to come for 2020, but there is certainly going to be a drop in commute distance beginning in March when the COVID pandemic shut down the world. Like everything, the project took some pivots at that time.
I love these sorts of data breakdowns. If you like this sort of thing, I'd encourage you to support BugsyLand so I can lean in further.

2019 distance from home

	Avg. Distance	Nearest Sunrise	Furthest Sunrise	Total Miles
Jan	8.5 mi	1,888 ft	117 mi	263 mi
Feb	2.0 mi	1,925 ft	11 mi	55 mi
Mar	36.6 mi	1,150 ft	352 mi	1,134 mi
Apr	1.8 mi	2,364 ft	6 mi	55 mi
May	26.9 mi	2,181 ft	225 mi	833 mi
Jun	2.9 mi	2,327 ft	7 mi	87 mi
Jul	57.2 mi	0.6 mi	304 mi	1,774 mi
Aug	5.4 mi	0.6 mi	64 mi	168 mi
Sep	25.1 mi	1,163 ft	222 mi	754 mi
Oct	3.2 mi	2,071 ft	23 mi	101 mi
Nov	91.5 mi	2,074 ft	363 mi	2,745 mi
Dec	11.9 mi	2,343 ft	117 mi	367 mi

2020 distance from home

	Avg. Distance	Nearest Sunrise	Furthest Sunrise	Total Miles
Jan	6.8 mi	2,306 ft	64 mi	210 mi
Feb	48.0 mi	2,430 ft	311 mi	1,391 mi
Mar	1.4 mi	0.6 mi	3 mi	44 mi
Apr	4.4 mi	499 ft	117 mi	132 mi
May	3.5 mi	643 ft	68 mi	108 mi
Jun	2.1 mi	641 ft	45 mi	64 mi
Jul	1.3 mi	620 ft	12 mi	39 mi
Aug	0.6 mi	589 ft	7 mi	17 mi
Sep	0.7 mi	645 ft	7 mi	21 mi
Oct	0.9 mi	638 ft	6 mi	28 mi
Nov	4.9 mi	656 ft	116 mi	147 mi
Dec	5.2 mi	645 ft	55 mi	161 mi

2021 distance from home

	Avg. Distance	Nearest Sunrise	Furthest Sunrise	Total Miles
Jan	22.4 mi	708 ft	119 mi	247 mi
Feb	2.9 mi	0.9 mi	7 mi	12 mi
Mar	1.8 mi	678 ft	5 mi	7 mi
Apr	0.4 mi	923 ft	1 mi	2 mi
May	40.8 mi	653 ft	310 mi	327 mi
Jun	1.1 mi	657 ft	6 mi	12 mi
Jul	8.2 mi	694 ft	55 mi	57 mi
Aug	7.6 mi	841 ft	55 mi	69 mi
Sep	50.5 mi	649 ft	300 mi	455 mi
Oct	2.9 mi	621 ft	15 mi	32 mi
Nov	0.6 mi	669 ft	2 mi	4 mi
Dec	76.5 mi	662 ft	272 mi	536 mi

2022 distance from home

	Avg. Distance	Nearest Sunrise	Furthest Sunrise	Total Miles
Jan	49.8 mi	1.3 mi	242 mi	249 mi
Feb	1.6 mi	1,079 ft	3 mi	8 mi
Mar	151.0 mi	847 ft	303 mi	604 mi
Apr	68.6 mi	773 ft	272 mi	274 mi
May	46.0 mi	682 ft	267 mi	276 mi
Jun	0.5 mi	638 ft	2 mi	2 mi
Jul	0.4 mi	668 ft	1 mi	2 mi
Aug	0.4 mi	659 ft	1 mi	2 mi
Sep	41.8 mi	634 ft	250 mi	251 mi
Oct	0.7 mi	624 ft	1 mi	3 mi
Nov	13.7 mi	642 ft	61 mi	69 mi
Dec	1.2 mi	710 ft	2 mi	2 mi