Sunset and sunrise times in Davao, Philippines

Sitting on the eastern side of its time zone puts solar noon at 11:39, a full 21 minutes before twelve o'clock, and drags the whole day — sunrise, noon and sunset — along with it.

At 7.1°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.

Summer and winter days differ by 49m here, less seasonal variation than almost anywhere else in Philippines we track.

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 22 seconds a day.

Being inside the tropics means two zenith passages a year, 8 April and 5 September, when the sun is straight up at solar noon rather than merely high. The next one is in 10 days.

The longest and shortest days of the year differ by just 49 minutes here. In London the same gap is around 8.8 hours. That is about 11 times less seasonal variation.

Sitting 2 months ago of the longest day (21 June) means the sun has almost stopped drifting — 12h 17m of daylight today, and only 7 minutes of movement in sunset over the next two weeks.