Know your light before you shoot.
Sunrise, sunset, golden hour, blue hour — computed for your city and date from NOAA’s public-domain solar formulas, spot-validated against official almanacs, and explained in plain language. Built for photographers, filmmakers and anyone whose work depends on the angle of the sun.
The calculator
Any date, any place — city picker or raw coordinates, with a day-arc chart of the sun’s elevation.
Sun calculator: sunrise, sunset, golden & blue hour
Pick a city or enter latitude/longitude, choose a date, and get every window: twilight, solar noon, magic hours — all computed in your browser.
MethodHow sunrise times are calculated
The NOAA formulas we implement, our sources, and the full validation table against the HKO and CWA official 2026 almanacs.
ComparisonSun-position apps vs printed tables
Where AR apps win, where tables win, and the combined workflow most working shooters actually use.
ConceptEquator vs high-latitude light
Why golden hour runs 43 minutes in Singapore and all night in Reykjavik — the one angle that explains everything.
Monthly city tables
Pre-computed for the whole of 2027 (plus late 2026): sunrise, solar noon, sunset, day length, golden and blue hour windows. Computed by our NOAA-formula engine — Last verified: 2026-11-16.
Hong Kong sun tables
22.30°N 114.17°E · UTC+8, no DST — cross-checked date-by-date against the HKO Almanac 2026.
City · validated vs CWATaipei sun tables
25.03°N 121.51°E · UTC+8, no DST — cross-checked against Taiwan’s CWA 2026 Taipei table.
CityTokyo sun tables
35.68°N 139.69°E · UTC+9 — four-and-a-half-hour seasonal swing in day length.
CitySingapore sun tables
1.35°N 103.82°E · UTC+8 — equatorial timing: twelve-hour days all year.
CityLondon sun tables
51.51°N 0.13°W · GMT/BST with hardcoded 2026–27 DST rules.
CityNew York sun tables
40.71°N 74.01°W · EST/EDT — Manhattanhenge timing starts here.
CityLos Angeles sun tables
34.05°N 118.24°W · PST/PDT — clear-sky baseline for the Pacific coast.
CitySydney sun tables
33.87°S 151.21°E · AEST/AEDT — southern-hemisphere seasons, mirrored.
Guides
The light windows explained — definitions, physics and field workflow.
Golden hour explained
The −4° to +6° band, why definitions vary, and how long the window really lasts at your latitude.
GuideBlue hour explained
The twilight band after sunset, the scattering physics behind the colour, and how short it really is.
GuideBest light for real-estate photography
Golden-hour exteriors, overcast interiors, the blue-hour hero shot — with a shoot-day timeline.
GuidePlanning a blue-hour cityscape shoot
A field checklist: scout, time the sky-to-city balance, expose through the fade.
Why trust these numbers?
Because we show them. Our engine implements the NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory solar-position formulas (public domain) and was spot-validated against the official Hong Kong Observatory Almanac 2026 and Taiwan CWA 2026 Taipei table: 43 published values checked, 36 matched to the minute, worst deviation 3 minutes. Full disclosure on the method page.