Sunset and sunrise times in Arequipa, Peru

On standard time the sun peaks at 11:33, 27 minutes before clock noon, because the city sits near the eastern edge of its time zone. Sunrise and sunset are pushed the same way.

Sunset here is followed by about 22 minutes of usable light before civil twilight ends — almost exactly the 24-minute median across the cities tracked here.

Between the June and December solstices the length of the day swings by 1h 57m here — among the widest of the 26 cities tracked in Peru.

Over a year the sunset point slides 49° along the horizon, from WSW at the December solstice to WNW in June. Today it is W.

Across October the sunset moves 7 minutes later, averaging about 14 seconds a day.

On 3 February and 7 November the midday sun stands at the zenith, 277 days apart. Those are the only two days of the year with no noon shadow. The next one is in 4 weeks.

At 2,397 m the horizon sits 1.69° lower than at sea level, so the sun sets about 7.1 minutes later here than the standard tables suggest — roughly 14.3 minutes of extra daylight across the day.

The times barely move this week: the longest day of the year falls on 21 December, in 2 months, so day length is changing by under a minute a day. Sunset shifts just 3 minutes later over the next fortnight.