Sunset and sunrise times in Kakamega, Kenya

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

At 0.3°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.

The gap between the longest and shortest day of the year comes to 1m, one of the narrowest swings of any Kenya city on the site.

Over a year the sunset point slides 47° along the horizon, from WSW at the December solstice to WNW in June. Today it is W.

Across October the sunset moves 6 minutes earlier, averaging about 13 seconds a day.

Being inside the tropics means two zenith passages a year, 21 March and 22 September, when the sun is straight up at solar noon rather than merely high.

The longest and shortest days of the year differ by just 2 minutes here. In London the same gap is around 8.8 hours. That is about 268 times less seasonal variation.

Elevation matters at 1,563 m. The visible horizon drops 1.37°, pushing sunset 5.5 minutes later and sunrise the same amount earlier than a sea-level observer would see.

Sitting in 2 months of the shortest day (21 December) means the sun has almost stopped drifting — 12h 6m of daylight today, and only 3 minutes of movement in sunset over the next two weeks.