Golden Hour Calculator
New York, United States
| Morning Golden Hour | 06:03 – 06:41 |
| Evening Golden Hour | 19:07 – 19:44 |
| Morning Blue Hour | 05:34 – 05:46 |
| Evening Blue Hour | 20:02 – 20:13 |
Golden Hour & Blue Hour
The golden hour is the window when the sun is low — between -0.833° (sunrise and sunset) and +6° elevation — giving soft, warm, directional light that's ideal for portrait and landscape photography.
The blue hour sits just outside golden hour, with the sun between -6° and -4° below the horizon. The sky takes on a deep saturated blue with long, cool tonal gradients.
At high latitudes in summer the sun may stay below +6° all day — in that case both morning and evening golden hour are reported as "does not occur today", and you can treat the entire day as soft-light hours.