Sunset and sunrise times in Bogotá, Colombia

At 4.6°N the sun cuts through the twilight band at an angle, so darkness takes 21 minutes to arrive: 3 minutes shorter than today's 24-minute median.

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.

Sunset drifts 19 seconds earlier each day this month — 10 minutes from the first of October to the last.

Twice a year the sun passes directly overhead here — on 1 April and 11 September — and vertical objects cast almost no shadow at solar noon.

Sunset lands at close to the same time all year — the annual spread in day length is only 32 minutes, compared with about 8.8 hours at London's latitude.

Standing 2,582 m up buys you 7.1 extra minutes of evening sun: the higher you are, the further over the curve of the Earth you can see, by 1.76° here.

Sitting in 2 months of the shortest day (21 December) means the sun has almost stopped drifting — 12h 2m of daylight today, and only 4 minutes of movement in sunset over the next two weeks.