The sun and the clock in Kazan (2026)
Kazan lies at 49.1°E. Its time zone, UTC+3, is built around the 45°E meridian. The 4.1° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 17 minutes behind the sun: solar noon arrives at about 11:43 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+3 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 17h 34m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 7h. The swing between them is 10h 35m. Close to the Arctic or Antarctic circle, the year swings hard between long light and long dark.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Kazan the sun comes up earliest on 19 June at 02:58, while the latest sunset waits until 25 June at 20:33. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Kazan that civil twilight runs about 37 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 62 minutes at the solstice.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.