Sunset and sunrise times in Pikine, Senegal

Clock noon and solar noon are 57 minutes apart here — the sun is highest at 12:56 standard time. That gap comes from the time zone's width, not the latitude.

At 14.8°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 49° 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 18 minutes earlier than it did on the first, a shift of roughly 36 seconds a day.

Twice a year the sun passes directly overhead here — on 30 April and 13 August — and vertical objects cast almost no shadow at solar noon.

Around a solstice the day length flattens out, and that is where the calendar is now: the shortest day is 21 December, in 2 months, and sunset moves a mere 8 minutes earlier in the coming fortnight.