Sunset and sunrise times in Maceió, Brazil

Sitting on the eastern side of its time zone puts solar noon at 11:09, a full 50 minutes before twelve o'clock, and drags the whole day — sunrise, noon and sunset — along with it.

Light lingers for 21 minutes after sunset before civil twilight ends — 3 minutes shorter than the 24-minute median across tracked cities, which is what 9.7°S buys you.

Summer and winter days differ by 1h 7m here, less seasonal variation than almost anywhere else in Brazil we track.

Between solstices the sunset walks 48° 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.

Being inside the tropics means two zenith passages a year, 24 February and 18 October, when the sun is straight up at solar noon rather than merely high. The next one is in 8 days.

Sitting in 2 months of the longest day (21 December) means the sun has almost stopped drifting — 12h 16m of daylight today, and only 1 minutes of movement in sunset over the next two weeks.