Golden hour in Tai’an
Evening golden hour in Tai’an today is 5:39 pm to 6:29 pm, blue hour 6:29 pm to 6:39 pm. Morning golden hour 5:41 am to 6:30 am. Drag the sun to see exactly how low it sits at any minute. Another city.
Tai’an, Shandong, China
Saturday, September 19
11:28 pm the sun is night, 52 degrees below the horizon
TAI’AN 36.19 N 117.12 E DAY 12 H 17 MIN UTC+8
The light today
- Morning blue hour
- 5:31 am to 5:41 am sun 6 to 4 degrees below the horizon
- Morning golden hour
- 5:41 am to 6:30 am sun 4 degrees below to 6 above
- Sunrise
- 5:56 am
- Solar noon
- 12:05 pm 55 degrees up, the harshest light
- Sunset
- 6:13 pm
- Evening golden hour
- 5:39 pm to 6:29 pm sun 6 above to 4 degrees below
- Evening blue hour
- 6:29 pm to 6:39 pm sun 4 to 6 degrees below
- Dark
- 7:39 pm end of astronomical twilight, stars and the Milky Way
- Day length
- 12 h 17 min −2 min 16 s vs yesterday
The week ahead
| Day | Morning golden | Evening golden | Evening blue | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Today | 5:41 am to 6:30 am | 5:39 pm to 6:29 pm | 6:29 pm to 6:39 pm | 6:13 pm |
| Tomorrow | 5:41 am to 6:31 am | 5:38 pm to 6:27 pm | 6:27 pm to 6:37 pm | 6:12 pm |
| Mon, Sep 21 | 5:42 am to 6:32 am | 5:36 pm to 6:26 pm | 6:26 pm to 6:36 pm | 6:10 pm |
| Tue, Sep 22 | 5:43 am to 6:32 am | 5:35 pm to 6:24 pm | 6:24 pm to 6:34 pm | 6:09 pm |
| Wed, Sep 23 | 5:44 am to 6:33 am | 5:33 pm to 6:23 pm | 6:23 pm to 6:33 pm | 6:07 pm |
| Thu, Sep 24 | 5:44 am to 6:34 am | 5:32 pm to 6:21 pm | 6:21 pm to 6:31 pm | 6:06 pm |
| Fri, Sep 25 | 5:45 am to 6:35 am | 5:30 pm to 6:20 pm | 6:20 pm to 6:30 pm | 6:04 pm |
What golden hour actually is
Golden hour is not an hour and it is not a time; it is a height. When the sun sits between about 6 degrees above the horizon and 4 degrees below it, its light crosses so much air that the blue is scattered away and what reaches Tai’an is warm, low and soft, with long shadows that give a face or a street its shape. Near the equator it lasts twenty minutes. Near the poles it can last all afternoon. This page computes it from the sun's true position, not from a fixed hour before sunset.
Blue hour, and what comes after
Blue hour follows golden hour in the evening and precedes it in the morning: the sun 4 to 6 degrees below the horizon, the sky a deep even blue while the ground is dark and the street lights are on. It is the window for cityscapes and lit buildings. After it comes nautical and then astronomical twilight; the Dark row in the table is when the sky stops brightening at all, the earliest you can shoot the Milky Way.
Planning a shoot
Use the week table to pick the day, then drag the sun to the minute you plan to shoot: the readout gives its height and compass direction, so you know which side of your subject the light will come from and roughly where it will sit on the horizon. Arrive fifteen minutes before the window opens. The times assume a flat horizon; a ridge or a skyline to the west ends the evening light earlier than the table says.
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What stays here
Everything on this page is arithmetic on a latitude, a longitude and the clock, done once at the edge so the times are in the page before any script runs, and again in your browser as you drag the sun or the countdown ticks. No account, no cookies, nothing typed here is stored. The only thing this page records is that a city was looked up, and which one.