Next usable light
Golden hour and blue hour times
7:00 PM – 7:54 PM
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Solar noon12:58 PM59.0° altitude
New York · Fri, Aug 28
The day’s light windows
Blue and golden windows can be only minutes long. Confirm the exact boundaries here before you commit to an arrival time — every value follows the city and date selected in the planner.
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- Morning blue
- 5:52 AM – 6:03 AM
- Morning gold
- 6:03 AM – 6:57 AM
- Daylight
- 13 hr 17 min
- Evening gold
- 7:00 PM – 7:54 PM
- Evening blue
- 7:54 PM – 8:05 PM
Evening golden hour · each city’s local today
Compare light windows across cities
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New York
40.71°, -74.01°
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Los Angeles
34.05°, -118.24°
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Chicago
41.88°, -87.63°
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Houston
29.76°, -95.37°
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Phoenix
33.45°, -112.07°
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Philadelphia
39.95°, -75.17°
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Know the light before you go
Field guides for changing light
Golden hour begins while the sun is low, roughly from 6° above the horizon to 4° below it. Blue hour follows between about −4° and −6°. GoldenHourly turns those angles into local times you can plan around.