Sunrise and sunset in South Africa

The times of sunrise and sunset in South Africa are caused by the southern position in the hemisphere. Not that far in the south, but quite noticable the longest days are in winter months, while the shortest days fall into our summer. In the northern hemisphere it is vice versa. Pretoria is positioned near the 26 southern latitude. For comparison: New York's latitude is 40th in the north, having a much longer distance to the equator.

With up to 13:50 hours the longest days are in Dezember. In Juni a night in Pretoria lasts almost 14 hours.

In these days the sun in Pretoria rises at 6:33. The early sunset at 17:49 makes the day currently a bit too short.


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