Great light in Cape Coral isn't luck — it's timing. This page calculates today's sunset, sunrise, golden hour and blue hour for Cape Coral's exact location, live, and works for any date you choose. On this side of the country, sunrise is the underrated window — the sun comes up over the Atlantic side and morning golden hour is quieter than the evening one.
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: Shoot with the sun behind your subject during golden hour and expose for the face — the rim light does the rest.
Golden hour in Cape Coral is the hour before sunset — and sunset here runs from 5:34 PM in November to 8:25 PM in June. The table below gives the exact window for every month, in Cape Coral's own time zone.
Use the live times above for today's exact window. As a rule, evening golden hour in Cape Coral starts about 34 minutes before sunset and ends at sunset. In June that is 7:48 PM – 8:22 PM; in December it is 5:03 PM – 5:37 PM.
Sunset in Cape Coral is earliest at 5:34 PM on November 25 and latest at 8:25 PM on June 29, a swing of about 3 hours across the year.
Golden hour lasts about 34 minutes in midsummer and 34 minutes in midwinter. The longest evening golden hour falls in January at about 34 minutes; the shortest is in March at about 30 minutes.
| Month | Sunrise | Sunset | Golden hour (evening) | Length | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7:17 AM | 5:57 PM | 5:23 PM – 5:57 PM | 34 min | 10h 40m |
| February | 7:03 AM | 6:20 PM | 5:48 PM – 6:20 PM | 32 min | 11h 17m |
| March | 7:37 AM | 7:36 PM | 7:06 PM – 7:36 PM | 30 min | 12h 00m |
| April | 7:04 AM | 7:51 PM | 7:20 PM – 7:51 PM | 31 min | 12h 48m |
| May | 6:40 AM | 8:07 PM | 7:35 PM – 8:07 PM | 32 min | 13h 27m |
| June | 6:34 AM | 8:22 PM | 7:48 PM – 8:22 PM | 34 min | 13h 48m |
| July | 6:44 AM | 8:23 PM | 7:50 PM – 8:23 PM | 33 min | 13h 39m |
| August | 6:59 AM | 8:04 PM | 7:32 PM – 8:04 PM | 32 min | 13h 04m |
| September | 7:13 AM | 7:32 PM | 7:01 PM – 7:32 PM | 31 min | 12h 19m |
| October | 7:27 AM | 6:59 PM | 6:28 PM – 6:59 PM | 31 min | 11h 32m |
| November | 6:47 AM | 5:37 PM | 5:04 PM – 5:37 PM | 33 min | 10h 51m |
| December | 7:08 AM | 5:37 PM | 5:03 PM – 5:37 PM | 34 min | 10h 29m |
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.
