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— The natural-light score for every home —

No one should buy
a home in the dark.

Dawnscore measures the natural light of any address — sunrise to sunset, season by season. Because square footage is just the start of the story.

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How it works

Three dimensions of light.
One score from 0 to 100.

Built from solar geometry, satellite imagery, and 280k+ verified ground-truth light readings. The result is a single number that tells you how a home actually feels to live in.

88Brightness

Direct, indirect, and reflected illumination measured across windows, orientations, and surrounding obstructions.

78Warmth

Color-temperature shifts hour by hour — cool morning blues, golden-hour amber, dusk's pink wash.

80Constancy

Year-round consistency: cloud cover, seasonal sun angle, hours of usable daylight.

Why it matters

Light is the new square footage.

A north-facing one-bedroom and a south-facing one-bedroom are not the same home. We've spent decades pricing rooms by size — it's time to start pricing them by light.

73%
of buyers rank natural light top-3
↳ NAR Buyer Survey, 2024
1 in 3
U.S. homes lacks sufficient natural daylight
↳ Velux Global Home Quality Report, 2023
90%
of daily hours Americans spend inside buildings
↳ U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
46 min
more sleep per night for people near windows
↳ Cornell University, Boubekri et al., 2014

Live in light.

Score your home. Score the one you're touring this weekend. Find your next address by the sun, not the floor plan.

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