Sunset and sunrise times in Gitega, Burundi

At 3.4°S the sun cuts through the twilight band at an angle, so darkness takes 21 minutes to arrive: 3 minutes shorter than today's 24-minute median.

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 15 seconds earlier each day this month — 7 minutes from the first of September to the last.

Twice a year the sun passes directly overhead here — on 12 March and 2 October — and vertical objects cast almost no shadow at solar noon. The next one is in 6 days.

At 3.4° the seasons barely touch the clock: 24 minutes separate midsummer from midwinter, against roughly 8.8 hours in London.

Standing 1,684 m up buys you 5.7 extra minutes of evening sun: the higher you are, the further over the curve of the Earth you can see, by 1.42° here.

Sitting in 3 months of the longest day (21 December) means the sun has almost stopped drifting — 12h 7m of daylight today, and only 3 minutes of movement in sunset over the next two weeks.