Sunset and sunrise times in Paramaribo, Suriname

Clock noon and solar noon are 43 minutes apart here — the sun is highest at 12:42 standard time. That gap comes from the time zone's width, not the latitude.

Light lingers for 21 minutes after sunset before civil twilight ends — 3 minutes shorter than the 24-minute median across tracked cities, which is what 5.9°N buys you.

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.

Sunset drifts 21 seconds earlier each day this month — 10 minutes from the first of August to the last.

Twice a year the sun passes directly overhead here — on 5 April and 8 September — and vertical objects cast almost no shadow at solar noon. The next one is in 14 days.

The longest and shortest days of the year differ by just 41 minutes here. In London the same gap is around 8.8 hours. That is about 13 times less seasonal variation.

Sitting 2 months ago of the longest day (21 June) means the sun has almost stopped drifting — 12h 15m of daylight today, and only 7 minutes of movement in sunset over the next two weeks.