Some seats, yes. For a typical July 1:10 PM day game at Camp Randall Stadium, roughly 37% of the seating bowl is shaded on average across the event. Shade grows through the late afternoon; by 6:00 PM about 72% of seats are out of the sun.
Check YOUR seat for YOUR event →Typical July afternoon highs at Camp Randall Stadium are around 82°F. Shaded seats make a real comfort difference.
No. Camp Randall Stadium is open air.
Camp Randall Stadium (Madison, WI) is oriented 5° from true north. We compute the sun's exact position for your date and start time and run it against the seating geometry, plus live schedules and an hour-by-hour forecast on the interactive site.
Interactive shade map for Camp Randall Stadium · Satellite shadow view
By the time Jump Around shakes the stands in late November, nobody at Camp Randall Stadium is thinking about shade, Madison afternoons average 46°F by then, and sun on your section is a gift. The sun problem here lives almost entirely in the season's first month, when late-summer light is still high and an early-afternoon kickoff means real exposure.
In high summer the sun at a 1:10 PM start stands 68 degrees up, nearly due south, which leaves most of the bowl staring straight into the light. Across an afternoon game the stadium averages 37 percent shade. The reliable exceptions are the covered club sections on the 200 level: sections 205 through 210 each hold about 50 percent shade for a day game. The lower bowl gives you far less, sections 114, 132, and 131 average 28 percent shade, and section 113 just 26. Wisconsin's early-season slate is exactly when those numbers bite: Madison runs 77°F afternoons in August and 74°F in September, warm enough that three uncovered hours plus a full-sun tailgate on the surrounding streets and lots leaves a mark, even if it never reaches dangerous.
Once the sun gets low, Camp Randall cools off quickly. From 6 PM onward, 72 percent of the seats sit in shade, and the midsummer sun is down by 8:34 PM, earlier with every passing week of the schedule. By 7 PM the sun is only 14 degrees above the horizon in the west-northwest, so a night kickoff is a shade game from the start. October afternoons in Madison average 64°F, and from there the concern flips from sunscreen to layers in the space of about three Saturdays.
For September day games, the 200-level club cover is the comfortable choice, and a hat and sunscreen handle the lower bowl if that's where your tickets land. For anything from mid-October on, take the sun if you can get it, a bright 50-degree afternoon in the lower bowl beats a shaded one. Camp Randall holds 75,822 people and the badge of one of college football's best atmospheres either way; the sun is just a variable to plan around, not a reason to stay home. To check your exact section for your exact date, the interactive shade map will show where the shade line sits at kickoff.
Upcoming events at Camp Randall Stadium are ticketed on TixBit. Check the shade map first, then grab a seat on the shady side.