Dallas's big-sky flatland horizon is a golden hour cheat code: nothing blocks the last light, sunsets run their full length, and cloud structure turns evenings into skyscapes. The times below are computed live for Dallas's exact coordinates and update automatically for any date you pick.
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 golden hour spot: the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge from Trinity Overlook. Arrive 30 minutes before the window opens to set up, and keep shooting into blue hour — it's shorter than you think.
Golden hour in Dallas is the hour before sunset — and sunset here runs from 5:20 PM in November to 8:39 PM in June. The table below gives the exact window for every month, in Dallas's own time zone.
Use the live times above for today's exact window. As a rule, evening golden hour in Dallas starts about 36 minutes before sunset and ends at sunset. In June that is 8:00 PM – 8:36 PM; in December it is 4:45 PM – 5:22 PM.
Sunset in Dallas is earliest at 5:20 PM on November 29 and latest at 8:39 PM on June 25, a swing of about 3 hours across the year.
Golden hour lasts about 36 minutes in midsummer and 37 minutes in midwinter. The longest evening golden hour falls in December at about 37 minutes; the shortest is in March at about 33 minutes.
| Month | Sunrise | Sunset | Golden hour (evening) | Length | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7:29 AM | 5:43 PM | 5:07 PM – 5:43 PM | 36 min | 10h 14m |
| February | 7:10 AM | 6:12 PM | 5:38 PM – 6:12 PM | 34 min | 11h 03m |
| March | 7:37 AM | 7:35 PM | 7:02 PM – 7:35 PM | 33 min | 11h 58m |
| April | 6:57 AM | 7:57 PM | 7:24 PM – 7:57 PM | 33 min | 13h 00m |
| May | 6:28 AM | 8:19 PM | 7:44 PM – 8:19 PM | 35 min | 13h 51m |
| June | 6:18 AM | 8:36 PM | 8:00 PM – 8:36 PM | 36 min | 14h 18m |
| July | 6:30 AM | 8:36 PM | 8:00 PM – 8:36 PM | 36 min | 14h 06m |
| August | 6:50 AM | 8:12 PM | 7:38 PM – 8:12 PM | 34 min | 13h 21m |
| September | 7:10 AM | 7:33 PM | 7:00 PM – 7:33 PM | 33 min | 12h 22m |
| October | 7:31 AM | 6:53 PM | 6:20 PM – 6:53 PM | 33 min | 11h 23m |
| November | 6:57 AM | 5:25 PM | 4:50 PM – 5:25 PM | 35 min | 10h 28m |
| December | 7:22 AM | 5:22 PM | 4:45 PM – 5:22 PM | 37 min | 10h 00m |
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.
