Sunset and sunrise times in Caracas, Venezuela

On standard time the sun peaks at 12:29, 30 minutes after clock noon, because the city sits near the western edge of its time zone. Sunrise and sunset are pushed the same way.

From sunset to full civil darkness is 21 minutes here, against a 24-minute median elsewhere today. Latitude 10.5°N accounts for the 3-minute difference.

Summer and winter days differ by 1h 13m here, more seasonal variation than almost anywhere else in Venezuela we track.

Between solstices the sunset walks 48° 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.

Across August the sunset moves 14 minutes earlier, averaging about 27 seconds a day.

Being inside the tropics means two zenith passages a year, 17 April and 26 August, when the sun is straight up at solar noon rather than merely high. The next one is tomorrow.

Standing 887 m up buys you 4.3 extra minutes of evening sun: the higher you are, the further over the curve of the Earth you can see, by 1.03° here.

Sitting 2 months ago of the longest day (21 June) means the sun has almost stopped drifting — 12h 22m of daylight today, and only 8 minutes of movement in sunset over the next two weeks.