Folks,
I am no scientist, so please humor and help answer this rather silly question.
I have a question about the average daylight hours experienced in some cities: Chennai, Mumbai (India), San Antonio, Texas, and Seattle, Washington
In summer:
In India, darkness falls around 6:30pm in Chennai (13 N). In Mumbai (19 N), darkness falls around 6:45pm, becoming complete by 7 pm. However, In San Antonio (29.5 N), darkness falls as late as 9pm, becoming complete by 9:30pm. In Seattle, by 8pm.
These Indian cities are much closer to the equator. Logic suggests that places near the equator should have the earliest sunrise and the latest sunset; as one travels northward, the amount of daylit hours should progressively reduce. But what I have seen is the opposite.
Can you explain this?