Distance from home for all 1,107 published sunrises

Nearest Sunrise: 17 ft
Avg. Distance: 13.9 mi
Furthest Sunrise: 363 mi

15,394 total miles

This number, 15,394 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^*	10.4 mi	570 ft	310 mi	2,591 mi
2022^*	22.3 mi	624 ft	303 mi	1,764 mi
2023^*	8.9 mi	17 ft	154 mi	331 mi
^*Data is updated as I publish more sunrises

Distance to sunrise by month

	Avg. Distance	Nearest Sunrise	Furthest Sunrise	Total Miles
Jan	10.6 mi	660 ft	242 mi	1,142 mi
Feb	16.8 mi	612 ft	311 mi	1,491 mi
Mar	19.5 mi	642 ft	352 mi	1,968 mi
Apr	6.8 mi	499 ft	272 mi	613 mi
May	17.2 mi	643 ft	310 mi	1,619 mi
Jun	2.2 mi	638 ft	45 mi	196 mi
Jul	23.2 mi	620 ft	304 mi	1,876 mi
Aug	3.5 mi	589 ft	64 mi	316 mi
Sep	16.8 mi	17 ft	300 mi	1,510 mi
Oct	1.9 mi	621 ft	23 mi	173 mi
Nov	34.4 mi	642 ft	363 mi	2,993 mi
Dec	15.0 mi	645 ft	272 mi	1,495 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 14 miles in one direction, that's actually a 28 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	8.5 mi	660 ft	119 mi	262 mi
Feb	1.5 mi	612 ft	7 mi	34 mi
Mar	1.4 mi	642 ft	7 mi	39 mi
Apr	5.8 mi	570 ft	64 mi	144 mi
May	19.1 mi	649 ft	310 mi	401 mi
Jun	2.3 mi	656 ft	8 mi	42 mi
Jul	5.4 mi	694 ft	55 mi	59 mi
Aug	9.0 mi	841 ft	55 mi	126 mi
Sep	31.9 mi	653 ft	300 mi	479 mi
Oct	2.3 mi	621 ft	15 mi	35 mi
Nov	1.0 mi	669 ft	5 mi	18 mi
Dec	30.7 mi	651 ft	272 mi	952 mi

2022 distance from home

	Avg. Distance	Nearest Sunrise	Furthest Sunrise	Total Miles
Jan	31.5 mi	717 ft	242 mi	252 mi
Feb	1.6 mi	1,079 ft	3 mi	8 mi
Mar	121.0 mi	847 ft	303 mi	605 mi
Apr	68.6 mi	773 ft	272 mi	274 mi
May	39.5 mi	685 ft	267 mi	277 mi
Jun	0.4 mi	638 ft	2 mi	3 mi
Jul	0.6 mi	668 ft	2 mi	4 mi
Aug	0.3 mi	656 ft	1 mi	2 mi
Sep	27.9 mi	634 ft	250 mi	251 mi
Oct	1.0 mi	624 ft	3 mi	8 mi
Nov	11.5 mi	642 ft	61 mi	69 mi
Dec	1.9 mi	710 ft	5 mi	10 mi

2023 distance from home

	Avg. Distance	Nearest Sunrise	Furthest Sunrise	Total Miles
Jan	51.4 mi	666 ft	154 mi	154 mi
Feb	0.6 mi	0.6 mi	1 mi	1 mi
Mar	45.7 mi	745 ft	136 mi	137 mi
Apr	7.3 mi	7.3 mi	7 mi	7 mi
May	0.3 mi	736 ft	1 mi	1 mi
Jun	0.1 mi	648 ft	0 mi	0 mi
Jul	0.5 mi	2,539 ft	0 mi	0 mi
Aug	0.5 mi	670 ft	1 mi	2 mi
Sep	0.8 mi	17 ft	3 mi	5 mi
Oct	0.4 mi	694 ft	1 mi	2 mi
Nov	5.0 mi	783 ft	14 mi	15 mi
Dec	2.9 mi	0.8 mi	5 mi	6 mi