Great light in Akron isn't luck — it's timing. This page calculates today's sunset, sunrise, golden hour and blue hour for Akron's exact location, live, and works for any date you choose.
The month-by-month table below is in this city's own local time. The live times above follow your device's timezone. Mountains, ridgelines and buildings can shorten the usable window — scout your horizon.
Local tip: Reflections double golden hour: water, glass buildings and wet pavement all pick up the sky's color in the hour around sunset.
Golden hour in Akron is the hour before sunset — and sunset here runs from 4:57 PM in December to 9:02 PM in June. The table below gives the exact window for every month, in Akron's own time zone.
Use the live times above for today's exact window. As a rule, evening golden hour in Akron starts about 42 minutes before sunset and ends at sunset. In June that is 8:18 PM – 9:00 PM; in December it is 4:14 PM – 4:58 PM.
Sunset in Akron is earliest at 4:57 PM on December 2 and latest at 9:02 PM on June 21, a swing of about 4 hours across the year.
Golden hour lasts about 42 minutes in midsummer and 44 minutes in midwinter. The longest evening golden hour falls in December at about 44 minutes; the shortest is in March at about 36 minutes.
| Month | Sunrise | Sunset | Golden hour (evening) | Length | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7:48 AM | 5:22 PM | 4:40 PM – 5:22 PM | 42 min | 9h 34m |
| February | 7:20 AM | 6:00 PM | 5:22 PM – 6:00 PM | 38 min | 10h 40m |
| March | 7:37 AM | 7:32 PM | 6:56 PM – 7:32 PM | 36 min | 11h 55m |
| April | 6:46 AM | 8:06 PM | 7:29 PM – 8:06 PM | 37 min | 13h 19m |
| May | 6:07 AM | 8:37 PM | 7:57 PM – 8:37 PM | 40 min | 14h 30m |
| June | 5:53 AM | 9:00 PM | 8:18 PM – 9:00 PM | 42 min | 15h 07m |
| July | 6:06 AM | 8:57 PM | 8:16 PM – 8:57 PM | 41 min | 14h 50m |
| August | 6:35 AM | 8:24 PM | 7:46 PM – 8:24 PM | 38 min | 13h 49m |
| September | 7:06 AM | 7:35 PM | 6:58 PM – 7:35 PM | 37 min | 12h 28m |
| October | 7:37 AM | 6:45 PM | 6:07 PM – 6:45 PM | 38 min | 11h 08m |
| November | 7:13 AM | 5:07 PM | 4:26 PM – 5:07 PM | 41 min | 9h 53m |
| December | 7:44 AM | 4:58 PM | 4:14 PM – 4:58 PM | 44 min | 9h 14m |
Golden hour is the stretch just after sunrise and just before sunset, when the low sun turns hard daylight into soft, warm, directional light — the most flattering natural light for portraits, real estate, product and landscape photography. Blue hour follows sunset (and precedes sunrise): a short window of deep, even blue that's ideal for twilight real estate shots and skylines. Both windows change with latitude and season, which is why this page computes them live instead of guessing.
Kanyon Studio is a San Diego photography and video studio — golden hour is our home field. Brand shoots, products, real estate and portraits, planned around exactly this light.
