Today's golden hour and blue hour times for any place, computed for any date.
How this tool works
Golden hour is when the sun sits between 6 degrees below and 6 degrees above the horizon, giving warm directional light; blue hour is roughly 4 to 8 degrees below, giving deep even blue. The tool computes both windows for morning and evening at your place and date with NOAA solar equations, in UTC and your device time.
What you can do with it
- Plan photo and video shoots around the exact soft-light windows
- Get both morning and evening windows, which differ in length by season
- Check golden hour for any future date and location when planning trips
- Understand why golden hour lasts minutes in the tropics and hours in the far north
Why use it
Photographers plan whole shoots around these windows, and the times shift every day and stretch dramatically with latitude. Computing them beats memorizing rules of thumb.
Data sources and methods
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These tools are provided for educational and informational purposes only. Results are computed from simplified public data and standard formulas, and may differ from surveyed or official values. No warranty is given as to accuracy or completeness, and the tools should not be relied on for navigation, legal, or commercial purposes.