Sunset and sunrise times in Tirunelveli, India

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.

At 8.7°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.

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

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.

By the end of August the sun will be setting 12 minutes earlier than it did on the first, a shift of roughly 24 seconds a day.

Twice a year the sun passes directly overhead here — on 13 April and 31 August — and vertical objects cast almost no shadow at solar noon. The next one is in 5 days.

Sitting 2 months ago of the longest day (21 June) means the sun has almost stopped drifting — 12h 19m of daylight today, and only 8 minutes of movement in sunset over the next two weeks.