Sunset and sunrise times in La Paz, Bolivia

Sitting on the western side of its time zone puts solar noon at 12:34, a full 35 minutes after twelve o'clock, and drags the whole day — sunrise, noon and sunset — along with it.

It takes roughly 22 minutes to go from sunset to proper darkness, right on the 24-minute median for today.

Between the June and December solstices the length of the day swings by 1h 58m here — among the narrowest of the 9 cities tracked in Bolivia.

Between solstices the sunset walks 49° across the horizon — WSW in midwinter, WNW in midsummer — which is why a fixed viewpoint works only part of the year. Today's bearing is W.

By the end of August the sun will be setting 6 minutes later than it did on the first, a shift of roughly 11 seconds a day.

Among 9 tracked Bolivia cities, sunset comes latest here, separated from Santa Cruz de la Sierra by 21 minutes.

On 3 February and 8 November the midday sun stands at the zenith, 278 days apart. Those are the only two days of the year with no noon shadow. The next one is in 2 months.

Standing 3,782 m up buys you 9 extra minutes of evening sun: the higher you are, the further over the curve of the Earth you can see, by 2.13° here.

The times barely move this week: the shortest day of the year falls on 21 June, 2 months ago, so day length is changing by under a minute a day. Sunset shifts just 2 minutes later over the next fortnight.