Displayed Alone

• General rules: Avoid allowing the flag to touch the ground. Refrain from using the flag commercially. The flag should be displayed outdoors only between sunrise to sunset unless illuminated during the night.
  
  

On a Pole

• Position the flag with the star field up and toward the pole. Raise the flag to the top of the pole unless directed to fly it at half-staff. Raise the flag to the top of the pole and lower to half-staff when appropriate.
  
  Exception: Position the star field DOWN to indicate extreme distress or danger.
  
  

Vertically or Horizontally

• Display the flag vertically in a window or draped over the side of a building so that the blue field of stars is on the upper left of the flag to anyone viewing it from the street. The lower edge should not touch the ground or any object below it.
  
  Hang the flag flat on the wall in a horizontal position. Place the star field to the upper left as viewed from the street or audience.
  
  

Displayed in a Group

• Refrain from displaying any other flag higher than the U.S. flag when displayed with multiple national flags. International protocol bars the display of the flag of any nation above the flag of another in peacetime. U.S. code forbids the positioning of any other nation's flag higher than the U.S. flag on American soil.
  
  Display the U.S. flag along with the flags of other nations from individual staffs of the same height and use flags of similar size.
  
  

Non-national Flags

• In a display of multiple flags other than the flags of other sovereign nations, the U.S. flag should be positioned in the center and higher than any other flag in the group.
  
  

Crossed Staffs

• Place the staff of the U.S. flag in front of the staff of the other flag when the two are positioned against a wall with crossed staffs. The U.S. flag should be angled to the upper left when viewed from in front of the display.