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What's with Lahaina Noon? Twice a year, when the sun's path lines up directly over this latitude, it climbs to the exact center of the sky and — for a moment at midday — vertical objects cast almost no shadow at all. Hawaiians knew the moment as kau ka lā i ka lolo, "the sun resting on the brains," and today it's called Lahaina Noon. The name fits the town's bright, leeward shore: Lāhainā means "cruel" or "merciless sun," for the dry, sun-soaked western coast of Maui where the light is famously strong.
Set on the leeward side of the West Maui Mountains (Mauna Kahālāwai), Lahaina has always been a place of strong sun and wide ocean horizons — the bright, dry shore that gives Lahaina Noon its name and the islands their famous light.
