Sunset and sunrise times in Ibadan, Nigeria

Clock noon and solar noon are 31 minutes apart here — the sun is highest at 12:31 standard time. That gap comes from the time zone's width, not the latitude.

At 7.4°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.

By the end of October 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 9 April and 4 September — and vertical objects cast almost no shadow at solar noon.

The longest and shortest days of the year differ by just 51 minutes here. In London the same gap is around 8.8 hours. That is about 10 times less seasonal variation.

Sitting in 2 months of the shortest day (21 December) means the sun has almost stopped drifting — 11h 59m of daylight today, and only 6 minutes of movement in sunset over the next two weeks.