Bounds of the data downloaded via CDS Beta API

Datasets and Usage
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Dear all,

For the following api request:

import cdsapi

client = cdsapi.Client()

dataset = "reanalysis-era5-single-levels"
request = {
    "year": [2024],
    "month": [1, 2],
    "day": [1],
    "time": ["23:00"],
    "product_type": "reanalysis",
    "variable": ["2m_temperature"],
    "data_format": "grib",
    "download_format": "unarchived",
    "area": [52.678, 13.085, 52.312, 13.758],
}
target = "download.grib"

client.retrieve(dataset, request, target)

ds = xr.load_dataset('download.grib', engine="cfgrib")
print(f"lonmax: {ds.longitude.max().item()}")
print(f"lonmin: {ds.longitude.min().item()}")
print(f"latmax: {ds.latitude.max().item()}")
print(f"latmin: {ds.latitude.min().item()}")

The output of the code above is:

lonmax: 13.585
lonmin: 13.085
latmax: 52.562
latmin: 52.312

Why are the bounds not matching the request?

Thanks and Best Regards,
Jayanth