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Not always. The sun is directly overhead at the equator at the spring and fall equinoxes.
The sun is never directly overhead in Levittown, NY, as it lies above the Tropic of Cancer.
The sun can never be directly overhead anywhere in New York state ... or anywhere in the USA for that matter. The highest it can ever appear is at noon on June 21. But in order to ever see it directly overhead, you have to be located within 23.5 degrees of the equator.
When the Sun is directly overhead (at zenith) the point below it is called nadir.
It never is overhead at noon because Texas is not in the northernmost point where the sun passes directly overhead at noon.
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The sun is directly overhead at the summer solstice at the Tropic of Cancer (23.5oN). This is as the most northernly latitude which has the sun directly overhead at any time of the year. A similar case happen at the winter solstice at the Tropic of Capricorn (23.5oS).
Antarctica and Europe would never have the sun "directly" overhead at any time of year.
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