HOR Converter

Extract text from Horizon or horoscope files (HOR)

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Drop or upload your .HOR file

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How to extract text from your HOR file

Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your HOR file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert HOR to another file type

To convert HOR Horizon files to another format, you need PV*SOL or other Data software.

Convert a file to HOR

To convert other file formats to the "Solar Simulation Data" file type, you need software like PV*SOL or a similar tool.

About HOR files

A .HOR file is most frequently associated with solar energy simulation and obstruction analysis, primarily generated by software like Valentin Software PV*SOL or Solargis. These files store horizon profiles - specifically a series of azimuth and elevation angles - used to calculate shading losses for photovoltaic systems. While critical for accurate yield predictions, the format is a common issue for users who aren't licensed surveyors or solar engineers. The data is often locked into specific syntax requirements (e.g., specific delimiters or header structures) that prevent easy visualization in standard tools like Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets.

Less commonly, a .HOR file may contain geomagnetic data in the IAGA-2002 format used by INTERMAGNET, or astrological chart data for legacy horoscope software. This ambiguity is a major pain point; dragging a binary astrology file into a text editor results in gibberish, while opening a strict IAGA-2002 text file in a spreadsheet can corrupt the formatting headers required for scientific validation.

Conversion Recommendations:

For Solar Analysis & Data Review: Convert to CSV or XLSX. This allows you to plot the horizon line in a chart or audit the obstruction points without purchasing a $1,000+ simulation license.
For Archiving/Documentation: Convert to PDF to create a non-editable record of the horizon line for project reports.
For Interoperability: If moving between simulation tools (e.g., from PV*SOL to PVSyst), converting to a clean TXT or CSV intermediate format allows you to reformat the syntax to match the target engine's requirements.

Convert.Guru analyzes your HOR file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

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FAQ

If you want to convert HOR file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use PV*SOL or similar software from the "Solar Horizon Data" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to HOR, try PV*SOL or another comparable tool in the "Solar Horizon Data" category.

The HOR Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our HOR converter.