Sunset and sunrise times in Bengaluru, India

Sitting on the western side of its time zone puts solar noon at 12:21, a full 22 minutes after twelve o'clock, and drags the whole day — sunrise, noon and sunset — along with it.

It takes roughly 22 minutes to go from sunset to proper darkness, right on the 24-minute median for today.

Summer and winter days differ by 1h 31m here, less seasonal variation than almost anywhere else in India 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.

Across August the sunset moves 15 minutes earlier, averaging about 31 seconds a day.

Being inside the tropics means two zenith passages a year, 25 April and 19 August, when the sun is straight up at solar noon rather than merely high.

Standing 920 m up buys you 4.4 extra minutes of evening sun: the higher you are, the further over the curve of the Earth you can see, by 1.05° here.

Around a solstice the day length flattens out, and that is where the calendar is now: the longest day is 21 June, 2 months ago, and sunset moves a mere 9 minutes earlier in the coming fortnight.