Work out golden hour timing instantly with clear inputs, formula shown and shareable results.
Golden hour lasts while the sun sits between about six degrees above and the horizon, and because the sun's path is shallower at high latitude the window scales roughly with one over the cosine of latitude. At the equator golden hour is barely half an hour while at 60 degrees it stretches past an hour, which changes how much shooting time a location actually offers.
Window length
golden hour minutes is about 30 / cos(latitude)
Timing
golden hour starts that many minutes before sunset; blue hour ends about two thirds of that after
golden hour minutes is about 30 / cos(latitude). Golden hour lasts while the sun sits between about six degrees above and the horizon, and because the sun's path is shallower at high latitude the window scales roughly with one over the cosine of latitude.
At the equator golden hour is barely half an hour while at 60 degrees it stretches past an hour, which changes how much shooting time a location actually offers.
Enter sunset time as a decimal hour, latitude. The defaults shown are a realistic worked example — swap in your own figures to get a result you can use.