Sunset in Egypt?

After having spent hollidays on the Canary Islands, it was dissapoting to discover that we lost the sun at 4:30 PM on our beach at Hurghada. The latitude is almost the same.
Anyone who can give an answer on this?
Well it was probably our last visit in Egypt.

When did you go to the Canary Islands - was there daylight savings then?
Sunset in Hurghada was actually at 4.55pm or a bit later, did the sun go behind a hill?

Yes it went down behind a hill, but there are no high hills in the close visinity of Hurghada.
At 6 o'clock it was pitch dark.

The Egyptian Tourist Authority have organised the situation so that the sun will go down early.
This is as a courtesy to stop tourists getting too sun-burnt during their stay.
It also has the added benefit of improving the taking at the restaurants and bars as people tend to go there earlier. The tourists, by 11pm, then are quite tired and go to bed, thus negating the possibility of Hurghada turning into an Egyptian version of Ibiza, with all it's associated problems.

Di you notice that the sun came up two hours earlier also? The length of the day is the same of all places on the same latitude.

Well here in the usa on the same latitude it gets pitch dark around 6 pm.

And what only mark and hisurfer said.

Tell me that you are not saying that you won't return to Egypt because the sun went down earlier than you wanted it to.

Sunset today in Cairo was 5:00 pm and in the Canary Islands 6:00 pm

Sunrise today in Cairo was 6:00 am and in the Canary Islands 7:00 am

Latitude of Cairo, Egypt is about 30.2 N

Latitude of Canary Islands is about 28 N

The Canary Islands are therefore approximately 160 miles south of Cairo.

Daylight Savings times:

# Canary Islands From last Sunday in March to Last Sunday in October and UTC.[1]
# Egypt From last Friday in April to Last Thursday in September and UTC+3.

6pm and the sun is going down here too (Honolulu, 21.3 deg North). I hope we're not losing folks tourists because of it!

I always tell visitors here to out their watches and clocks forward two hours when they get here. That way they can get up at sunrise, go for a swim and then have a nice leisurely nreakfast at 9 a.m. before heading for the beach for the whole day until around 6.30 p.m. when the sun sinks below the mountains. Time then for a shower and brush up before dinner, a few drinks in the oub afterwards and in bed and asleep just after 11 p.m.