Sunset and sunrise times in Kananga, Democratic Republic of the Congo

On standard time the sun peaks at 12:21, 22 minutes after clock noon, because the city sits near the western edge of its time zone. Sunrise and sunset are pushed the same way.

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 5.9°S buys you.

The sun does not set in the same place twice: the December solstice puts it WSW, June swings it 47° round to WNW. Tonight, W.

By the end of September the sun will be setting 5 minutes earlier than it did on the first, a shift of roughly 11 seconds a day.

On 6 March and 8 October the midday sun stands at the zenith, 216 days apart. Those are the only two days of the year with no noon shadow. The next one is in 12 days.

At 5.9° the seasons barely touch the clock: 41 minutes separate midsummer from midwinter, against roughly 8.8 hours in London.

At 643 m the horizon sits 0.88° lower than at sea level, so the sun sets about 3.5 minutes later here than the standard tables suggest — roughly 7.1 minutes of extra daylight across the day.

The times barely move this week: the longest day of the year falls on 21 December, in 3 months, so day length is changing by under a minute a day. Sunset shifts just 2 minutes earlier over the next fortnight.