I live in Asia so I spent my whole life having sunset between 6 to 630pm so by that time everywhere was pretty dark and the streetlamps came on. I was pretty shocked later in life when I found out that there are parts of the world like in Europe or the States where it’d still be bright out at fucking 730 or even 8pm. How come? I know that they are behind by Asia and Australia by some hours but why does the sun set later there too?
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Depending on how far from the equator you are, the variance in sunrise/sunset can differ. Along the equator, it’s basically the same year round. There are places in the pole where the sun doesn’t set for weeks in the summer, and in the winter they have weeks without sun. Other places are less extreme, but have variances of a few hours from summer to winter (eg. here in Chicago in the US, we may have sunset as early as 4:30pm in December and as late as 9pm in June).
In addition to distance from equator, time zones matter… how big the time zone is, how far you are from a dividing line. If you’re at the far Eastern part of the time zone, the sunset would come sooner for you than those in the Western part of the time zone.
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