Sunset and sunrise times in Dodoma, Tanzania

Sitting on the western side of its time zone puts solar noon at 12:39, a full 39 minutes after twelve o'clock, and drags the whole day — sunrise, noon and sunset — along with it.

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 6.2°S buys you.

Over a year the sunset point slides 47° along the horizon, from WSW at the December solstice to WNW in June. Today it is W.

Twice a year the sun passes directly overhead here — on 5 March and 9 October — and vertical objects cast almost no shadow at solar noon. The next one is in 6 weeks.

The longest and shortest days of the year differ by just 43 minutes here. In London the same gap is around 8.8 hours. That is about 12 times less seasonal variation.

Standing 1,125 m up buys you 4.7 extra minutes of evening sun: the higher you are, the further over the curve of the Earth you can see, by 1.16° here.

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