Sunset and sunrise times in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

On standard time the sun peaks at 13:15, 75 minutes after clock noon, because the city sits near the western edge of its time zone. Sunrise and sunset are pushed the same way.

At 3.1°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 8 minutes earlier, averaging about 17 seconds a day.

Twice a year the sun passes directly overhead here — on 29 March and 15 September — and vertical objects cast almost no shadow at solar noon. The next one is in 20 days.

Sunset lands at close to the same time all year — the annual spread in day length is only 22 minutes, compared with about 8.8 hours at London's latitude.

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 6 minutes earlier in the coming fortnight.