Sunset and sunrise times in Sucre, Bolivia

Sitting on the western side of its time zone puts solar noon at 12:23, a full 23 minutes after twelve o'clock, and drags the whole day — sunrise, noon and sunset — along with it.

Sunset here is followed by about 22 minutes of usable light before civil twilight ends — almost exactly the 24-minute median across the cities tracked here.

Over a year the sunset point slides 50° along the horizon, from WSW at the December solstice to WNW in June. Today it is W.

Across August the sunset moves 8 minutes later, averaging about 15 seconds a day.

Twice a year the sun passes directly overhead here — on 25 January and 17 November — and vertical objects cast almost no shadow at solar noon. The next one is in 3 months.

Standing 2,798 m up buys you 7.9 extra minutes of evening sun: the higher you are, the further over the curve of the Earth you can see, by 1.83° here.

Around a solstice the day length flattens out, and that is where the calendar is now: the shortest day is 21 June, 2 months ago, and sunset moves a mere 3 minutes later in the coming fortnight.