A little more time in the right light.
No town matches that. Golden covers 207 towns, 202 of them in the UK.
Find your lightSunrise, sunset and golden hour
Brighton
The afternoon is unfolding. The softer light comes later.
Checking the clock…
12:00
Sat 14 Nov
Go straight to the light
9h 01m daylight · approximately 104 golden minutes · Europe/London time
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Built by Digitopia Labs · Calculated times, illustrated landscape. Town coordinates adapted from GeoNames, used under CC BY 4.0.
Seven little windows of opportunity
Evening gold in Brighton.
Starting from your selected date. Choose morning or evening. Preview a window, or save its exact start and end to your calendar.
Sunrise, sunset and the bits between
Sunrise, sunset and golden hour times
The day has a softer side, and Golden helps you find it. Pick a town, move through the day and see when the sun is low enough for that warm, slanting light.
The tags do the timekeeping. The valley gives the numbers a little room to breathe. Every time is worked out from the sun’s position rather than looked up; there is no forecast, account or saved location.
When is golden hour?
Here, the golden window runs from sunrise to a solar altitude of 6 degrees in the morning, and back down to sunset in the evening. Its length changes with your location and the season. It is not necessarily an hour.
What is blue hour?
This tool uses the interval when the sun is between 6 and 4 degrees below the horizon. Morning blue hour begins at civil dawn; evening blue hour ends at civil dusk.
Will I actually see the sun at these times?
Sunrise and sunset use the standard -0.833 degree solar altitude threshold, which allows for refraction and the width of the sun. Buildings, terrain and atmospheric conditions affect what you see. The cut-paper hills are decorative and can obscure the illustrated sun before the calculated event.
What happens when the sun does not rise or set?
Missing crossings are shown as dashes, not invented times. At high latitudes, a golden or twilight window may not have both boundaries on a given day. Calendar downloads are available only for complete windows.
How accurate are the times?
Within a minute of published almanac values. The engine is checked against the US Naval Observatory at both solstices and both equinoxes for London, at midsummer for Lerwick, and in both directions for a southern-hemisphere town. Times are for the town centre; hills and buildings shift what you actually see.
A change of scenery