Sunset and sunrise times in Valencia, Venezuela

Sitting on the western side of its time zone puts solar noon at 12:34, a full 34 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 10.2°N buys you.

The sun does not set in the same place twice: the December solstice puts it WSW, June swings it 48° round to WNW. Tonight, W.

By the end of August the sun will be setting 13 minutes earlier than it did on the first, a shift of roughly 27 seconds a day.

Twice a year the sun passes directly overhead here — on 16 April and 27 August — and vertical objects cast almost no shadow at solar noon. The next one is in 2 days.

Standing 547 m up buys you 3.3 extra minutes of evening sun: the higher you are, the further over the curve of the Earth you can see, by 0.81° here.

The times barely move this week: the longest day of the year falls on 21 June, 2 months ago, so day length is changing by under a minute a day. Sunset shifts just 8 minutes earlier over the next fortnight.