Sunset and sunrise times in Mombasa, Kenya

On standard time the sun peaks at 12:23, 23 minutes after clock noon, because the city sits near the western edge of its time zone. Sunrise and sunset are pushed the same way.

From sunset to full civil darkness is 21 minutes here, against a 24-minute median elsewhere today. Latitude 4.1°S accounts for the 3-minute difference.

Between the June and December solstices the length of the day swings by 28m here — among the widest of the 29 cities tracked in Kenya.

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.

Being inside the tropics means two zenith passages a year, 10 March and 4 October, when the sun is straight up at solar noon rather than merely high. The next one is in 6 weeks.

At 4.1° the seasons barely touch the clock: 28 minutes separate midsummer from midwinter, against roughly 8.8 hours in London.

The times barely move this week: the shortest 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 3 minutes earlier over the next fortnight.