Sunset and sunrise times in Yaren, Nauru

Sitting on the western side of its time zone puts solar noon at 12:43, a full 44 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 0.6°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 10 minutes earlier than it did on the first, a shift of roughly 20 seconds a day.

Being inside the tropics means two zenith passages a year, 20 March and 25 September, when the sun is straight up at solar noon rather than merely high.

At 0.6° the seasons barely touch the clock: 4 minutes separate midsummer from midwinter, against roughly 8.8 hours in London.

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 4 minutes earlier over the next fortnight.