Sunset and sunrise times in Niamey, Niger

Clock noon and solar noon are 39 minutes apart here — the sun is highest at 12:38 standard time. That gap comes from the time zone's width, not the latitude.

From sunset to full civil darkness is 21 minutes here, against a 24-minute median elsewhere today. Latitude 13.5°N accounts for the 3-minute difference.

The gap between the longest and shortest day of the year comes to 1h 35m, one of the narrowest swings of any Niger city on the site.

Over a year the sunset point slides 48° along the horizon, from WSW at the December solstice to WNW in June. Today it is W.

By the end of October the sun will be setting 17 minutes earlier than it did on the first, a shift of roughly 34 seconds a day.

Today's latest sunset in Niger happens here, 28 minutes later than in Zinder.

Twice a year the sun passes directly overhead here — on 26 April and 17 August — and vertical objects cast almost no shadow at solar noon.

Sitting in 2 months of the shortest day (21 December) means the sun has almost stopped drifting — 11h 53m of daylight today, and only 8 minutes of movement in sunset over the next two weeks.