Sunrise and sunset on the Seychelles

Average length of day in Victoria

      sunshine duration       twilight phase

Sunrise and sunset in the most important cities of the Seychelles

The cities are ordered by their geographic position from east to west, so in an approximate direction of the sun course. Since the orbit of the sun is elliptical, sunrise or sunset never happen on a whole longitude at the same time. All data given for May 18th., localtime on the Seychelles

Sunrise and sunset by month (Victoria)

Duration of the sunset

The distance from the equator and the path of the sun determines not only the time of sunrise and sunset. The farther a country is from the equator, the more oblique the sun's path is to the horizon. And this causes a different duration that a sunset takes. Victoria lies on the 5th degree of southern latitude and thus very close to the equator. While a sunset in the northern USA or central Europe can take almost an hour, on the Seychelles it only lasts an average of 23 minutes. The Seychelles is so close to the equator that there is no noticeable difference even between June and December.

International cities for comparison