Great light in Arlington isn't luck — it's timing. This page calculates today's sunset, sunrise, golden hour and blue hour for Arlington's exact location, live, and works for any date you choose. Note the times below account for Arlington's latitude — golden hour runs longer in winter and shorter at midsummer than most charts assume.
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: For skylines and wide shots, the 15 minutes after sunset usually beats the sunset itself: the sky holds color while buildings and streetlights come up.
Golden hour in Arlington is the hour before sunset — and sunset here runs from 5:21 PM in December to 8:40 PM in June. The table below gives the exact window for every month, in Arlington's own time zone.
Use the live times above for today's exact window. As a rule, evening golden hour in Arlington starts about 37 minutes before sunset and ends at sunset. In June that is 8:01 PM – 8:38 PM; in December it is 4:46 PM – 5:23 PM.
Sunset in Arlington is earliest at 5:21 PM on December 4 and latest at 8:40 PM on June 24, a swing of about 3 hours across the year.
Golden hour lasts about 37 minutes in midsummer and 37 minutes in midwinter. The longest evening golden hour falls in January at about 37 minutes; the shortest is in March at about 33 minutes.
| Month | Sunrise | Sunset | Golden hour (evening) | Length | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7:30 AM | 5:45 PM | 5:08 PM – 5:45 PM | 37 min | 10h 14m |
| February | 7:11 AM | 6:14 PM | 5:40 PM – 6:14 PM | 34 min | 11h 03m |
| March | 7:38 AM | 7:36 PM | 7:03 PM – 7:36 PM | 33 min | 11h 58m |
| April | 6:58 AM | 7:58 PM | 7:25 PM – 7:58 PM | 33 min | 13h 00m |
| May | 6:29 AM | 8:20 PM | 7:45 PM – 8:20 PM | 35 min | 13h 51m |
| June | 6:20 AM | 8:38 PM | 8:01 PM – 8:38 PM | 37 min | 14h 18m |
| July | 6:31 AM | 8:37 PM | 8:01 PM – 8:37 PM | 36 min | 14h 06m |
| August | 6:52 AM | 8:13 PM | 7:39 PM – 8:13 PM | 34 min | 13h 21m |
| September | 7:12 AM | 7:34 PM | 7:01 PM – 7:34 PM | 33 min | 12h 22m |
| October | 7:32 AM | 6:55 PM | 6:22 PM – 6:55 PM | 33 min | 11h 23m |
| November | 6:58 AM | 5:27 PM | 4:51 PM – 5:27 PM | 36 min | 10h 29m |
| December | 7:23 AM | 5:23 PM | 4:46 PM – 5:23 PM | 37 min | 10h 01m |
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.
