Sunset and sunrise times in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Sitting on the western side of its time zone puts solar noon at 12:21, a full 21 minutes after 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 0.5°N buys you.

The gap between the longest and shortest day of the year comes to 3m, one of the narrowest swings of any Democratic Republic of the Congo city on the site.

Over a year the sunset point slides 47° along the horizon, from WSW at the December solstice to WNW in June. Today it is W.

Across August the sunset moves 7 minutes earlier, averaging about 13 seconds a day.

Being inside the tropics means two zenith passages a year, 22 March and 22 September, when the sun is straight up at solar noon rather than merely high. The next one is in 4 weeks.

At 0.5° the seasons barely touch the clock: 4 minutes separate midsummer from midwinter, against roughly 8.8 hours in London.

The times barely move this week: the longest 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 5 minutes earlier over the next fortnight.