Sunset and sunrise times in Mbuji-Mayi, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Sitting on the western side of its time zone puts solar noon at 12:27, a full 28 minutes after twelve o'clock, and drags the whole day — sunrise, noon and sunset — along with it.

From sunset to full civil darkness is 21 minutes here, against a 24-minute median elsewhere today. Latitude 6.1°S accounts for the 3-minute difference.

Between solstices the sunset walks 47° 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.

On 5 March and 9 October the midday sun stands at the zenith, 218 days apart. Those are the only two days of the year with no noon shadow. The next one is in 6 weeks.

At 6.1° the seasons barely touch the clock: 43 minutes separate midsummer from midwinter, against roughly 8.8 hours in London.

At 621 m the horizon sits 0.86° lower than at sea level, so the sun sets about 3.5 minutes later here than the standard tables suggest — roughly 7.1 minutes of extra daylight across the day.

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 earlier over the next fortnight.