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If you’ve been outside recently in the evening, you’ve likely noticed that the sun is setting later and later.
Each day during the month of September, locations across Australia have been gaining sunlight, at around 30-40 seconds per day in the far north (including Darwin) to about 3 minutes per day in the far south (about Hobart).
This comes as no surprise, as the spring equinox is fast approaching. During equinoxes, the days and nights are of about equal length and the phenomenon occurs twice a year - once in autumn (between 19 and 21 March) and once in spring (between 21 and 24 September). This year, the spring equinox will fall on 23 September, which happens to be next Saturday.
Inspired by Brian Brettschneider, an Alaskan climatologist who creates a plethora of interesting weather data maps including local sunset times on the fall equinox (found here), a similar map has been created for Australia using data from the NOAA Solar Calculator.�