Sunset and sunrise times in Aba, Nigeria

Sitting on the western side of its time zone puts solar noon at 12:21, a full 22 minutes after twelve o'clock, and drags the whole day — sunrise, noon and sunset — along with it.

From sunset to full civil darkness is 21 minutes here, against a 24-minute median elsewhere today. Latitude 5.1°N accounts for the 3-minute difference.

Between the June and December solstices the length of the day swings by 35m here — among the narrowest of the 110 cities tracked in Nigeria.

Over a year the sunset point slides 47° along the horizon, from WSW at the December solstice to WNW in June. Today it is W.

By the end of September the sun will be setting 14 minutes earlier than it did on the first, a shift of roughly 29 seconds a day.

Being inside the tropics means two zenith passages a year, 3 April and 10 September, when the sun is straight up at solar noon rather than merely high.

The longest and shortest days of the year differ by just 36 minutes here. In London the same gap is around 8.8 hours. That is about 15 times less seasonal variation.

Sitting in 3 months of the shortest day (21 December) means the sun has almost stopped drifting — 12h 5m of daylight today, and only 6 minutes of movement in sunset over the next two weeks.