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Is the noon sun higher in the sky at 5 degrees north or 52 degrees south on the December solstice?
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On the December solstice (generally the 21st, but this can vary a day either way) the Sun is directly above the Tropic of Cancer at 23.5 degrees south (rounded off to the nearest half). At "Local Apparent Noon", which is sometimes called the Meridian Passage time (when the Sun is highest in the sky) the elevation of the Sun is 90 minus your latitude plus declination. (MINUS your declination if it is opposite hemisphere.)
For 5N, that's about 61.5 degrees. For 52S, that's .... 61.5 degrees. So they're about the same, and we'd need to get more precise than "to the nearest half-degree) to figure it out. Since the Solstice declination is closer to 23 degrees 26 minutes S, the the Sun will be FRACTIONALLY higher in the sky from 5N.
In reality, there are very few people living at 52S; the Falkland Islands, the southern tip of South America, and a couple of islands way south of Australia. The weather there is generally blustery, so they may not SEE the Sun on December 21.
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