What lattitude gets the least solar radiation over the 24 hours of the summer soltice?

Question:

I asked this question before but I was not clear enough in my question (and i cant answer my own question to provide clarification on the old thread). I read elswhere that the poles, in their respective summer soltices, get more radiation than the equator. Which begs the question, where gets the least? Mid lattitudes? The equator? Obviously when the south is in summer the north is in winter and vice versa and the winter side pole will get least sun. That isnt what i am asking. On the summer side of the earth (either north or south), on its longest day, which lattitude gets the most solar energy, bearing in mind that the summer pole will get 24 hours of low sun while the equator will get 12 hours of mostly high sun.

Answer:
first of all the summer soltice has differnt dates in each hemishere Its June 21 or 22 in the northern and December 21 or 22 in the Southern. and you need to be more spefic. Do you mean sun light hours? or the amount of solar engery a place recives cause the answer is different. if you mean sunlight hours the answer would be the equator cause it awlays gets exactly 12 hours of sunlight no matter what time of year it is where as at the summer solstic, the further away form the equator you get the more sunlight hours there are. at the poles there are 24 hours or sunlight at that time of year.

It you mean te amount of soalr radition each location recives, then te answer its the pole. Anytime of year the poles recive less solar radition because of the angle of the earth. its kinf od hard to explain without pictures but say you have one square meter of land at the equator and an idential one at the pole. the euqator piece of land is directly face the sun so it would get a high concentretion of solar radiation wheras the piece of land at the pole is angled away from the sun due to the curve of the earth so the solar engery is spread out over a larger area. Does that make sense? it would be a lot easier to explain with picture

On the summer solstice say in the Northern hemisphere the Earth is tilted towards the sun by 21 degrees. This means that the Sun at midday is vertically above a latitude 21 degrees above the equator. This latitude is the latitide of one of the tropics (can't remember if it is cancer or capricorn)

I'm not sure about the answer, however I did find an interesting website that you may be able to figure out.Hope it helps & good luck!

It's the Southern Pole during the Summer Solstice which gets least amount of sunlight, of course. Overall, both poles get the least amount of sunlight compared with other lattitudes, even if sporadically they get 24 hours non-stop.

What lattitude gets the least solar radiation over the 24 hours of the summer soltice?

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