Sunset and sunrise times in Ibadan, Nigeria

Clock noon and solar noon are 46 minutes apart here — the sun is highest at 12:46 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 August the sun will be setting 11 minutes earlier than it did on the first, a shift of roughly 23 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 next one is in 10 days.

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 2 months ago of the longest day (21 June) means the sun has almost stopped drifting — 12h 18m of daylight today, and only 7 minutes of movement in sunset over the next two weeks.