Sunset and sunrise times in Medellín, Colombia

At 6.2°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.

Across August the sunset moves 11 minutes earlier, averaging about 21 seconds a day.

Twice a year the sun passes directly overhead here — on 5 April and 7 September — and vertical objects cast almost no shadow at solar noon. The next one is in 13 days.

Sunset lands at close to the same time all year — the annual spread in day length is only 44 minutes, compared with about 8.8 hours at London's latitude.

At 1,405 m the horizon sits 1.3° lower than at sea level, so the sun sets about 5.3 minutes later here than the standard tables suggest — roughly 10.6 minutes of extra daylight across the day.

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 7 minutes earlier over the next fortnight.