Sunset and sunrise times in Caracas, Venezuela

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 October the sunset moves 14 minutes earlier, averaging about 28 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.

Standing 887 m up buys you 4.2 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 in 2 months of the shortest day (21 December) means the sun has almost stopped drifting — 11h 56m of daylight today, and only 7 minutes of movement in sunset over the next two weeks.