Calculate golden hour timing for photography at a given latitude and date.
Golden hour lasts longer at higher latitudes because the sun crosses the horizon at a shallower angle. Near the equator it can be under half an hour, while at sixty degrees it stretches past an hour. Tropical photographers get very little golden light, which is why the same scene photographs so differently at high latitudes.
Golden Hour
Golden hour length scales with 1 ÷ cos(latitude), because the sun sets at a shallower angle
Golden hour length scales with 1 ÷ cos(latitude), because the sun sets at a shallower angle Golden hour lasts longer at higher latitudes because the sun crosses the horizon at a shallower angle. Near the equator it can be under half an hour, while at sixty degrees it stretches past an hour.
Tropical photographers get very little golden light, which is why the same scene photographs so differently at high latitudes.
This calculator takes 4 inputs: Latitude, Day of the year, Sunrise time, Sunset time. The pre-filled defaults are a realistic starting point — replace them with figures from your own environment for a result you can act on.