Distance from home for all 632 published sunrises

Nearest Sunrise: 499 ft
Avg. Distance: 17.5 mi
Furthest Sunrise: 363 mi

11,065 total miles

This number, 11,065 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	1,149 ft	363 mi	8,335 mi
2020^*	8.4 mi	499 ft	311 mi	1,925 mi
2021^*	14.3 mi	624 ft	141 mi	272 mi
2022^*	28.0 mi	625 ft	272 mi	533 mi
^*Data is updated as I publish more sunrises

Distance to sunrise by month

	Avg. Distance	Nearest Sunrise	Furthest Sunrise	Total Miles
Jan	13.6 mi	1,889 ft	242 mi	760 mi
Feb	23.6 mi	1,924 ft	311 mi	1,462 mi
Mar	19.8 mi	677 ft	352 mi	1,171 mi
Apr	6.6 mi	499 ft	272 mi	337 mi
May	15.5 mi	645 ft	225 mi	870 mi
Jun	2.9 mi	642 ft	45 mi	149 mi
Jul	36.7 mi	620 ft	304 mi	1,801 mi
Aug	3.6 mi	590 ft	64 mi	181 mi
Sep	18.1 mi	646 ft	222 mi	904 mi
Oct	2.2 mi	624 ft	23 mi	117 mi
Nov	59.8 mi	643 ft	363 mi	2,870 mi
Dec	9.2 mi	708 ft	117 mi	443 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 18 miles in one direction, that's actually a 36 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	1,889 ft	117 mi	263 mi
Feb	2.0 mi	1,924 ft	11 mi	55 mi
Mar	36.6 mi	1,149 ft	352 mi	1,134 mi
Apr	1.8 mi	2,364 ft	6 mi	55 mi
May	26.9 mi	2,179 ft	225 mi	833 mi
Jun	2.9 mi	2,328 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	1,165 ft	222 mi	754 mi
Oct	3.2 mi	2,071 ft	23 mi	101 mi
Nov	91.5 mi	2,076 ft	363 mi	2,745 mi
Dec	11.9 mi	2,344 ft	117 mi	367 mi

2020 distance from home

	Avg. Distance	Nearest Sunrise	Furthest Sunrise	Total Miles
Jan	7.5 mi	2,308 ft	64 mi	136 mi
Feb	48.0 mi	2,427 ft	311 mi	1,391 mi
Mar	1.4 mi	0.6 mi	3 mi	36 mi
Apr	0.4 mi	499 ft	2 mi	8 mi
May	1.6 mi	645 ft	7 mi	36 mi
Jun	3.5 mi	642 ft	45 mi	59 mi
Jul	1.6 mi	620 ft	12 mi	26 mi
Aug	0.7 mi	590 ft	7 mi	13 mi
Sep	0.5 mi	646 ft	3 mi	8 mi
Oct	0.7 mi	639 ft	3 mi	12 mi
Nov	7.8 mi	656 ft	116 mi	125 mi
Dec	5.0 mi	1,012 ft	54 mi	75 mi