Whether you're shooting portraits, real estate or just chasing a good sky, this is when the light works in Elk Grove. Every time below is computed live for Elk Grove's coordinates and updates for any date. With a west-facing coastline nearby, evenings are the show — the sun drops toward the Pacific and the last hour of light runs warm and long.
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 Elk Grove is the hour before sunset — and sunset here runs from 4:44 PM in December to 8:33 PM in June. The table below gives the exact window for every month, in Elk Grove's own time zone.
Use the live times above for today's exact window. As a rule, evening golden hour in Elk Grove starts about 40 minutes before sunset and ends at sunset. In June that is 7:51 PM – 8:31 PM; in December it is 4:04 PM – 4:45 PM.
Sunset in Elk Grove is earliest at 4:44 PM on December 2 and latest at 8:33 PM on June 22, a swing of about 4 hours across the year.
Golden hour lasts about 40 minutes in midsummer and 41 minutes in midwinter. The longest evening golden hour falls in January at about 41 minutes; the shortest is in March at about 35 minutes.
| Month | Sunrise | Sunset | Golden hour (evening) | Length | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7:21 AM | 5:09 PM | 4:28 PM – 5:09 PM | 41 min | 9h 48m |
| February | 6:55 AM | 5:43 PM | 5:07 PM – 5:43 PM | 36 min | 10h 48m |
| March | 7:16 AM | 7:12 PM | 6:37 PM – 7:12 PM | 35 min | 11h 56m |
| April | 6:29 AM | 7:42 PM | 7:06 PM – 7:42 PM | 36 min | 13h 13m |
| May | 5:54 AM | 8:10 PM | 7:32 PM – 8:10 PM | 38 min | 14h 16m |
| June | 5:41 AM | 8:31 PM | 7:51 PM – 8:31 PM | 40 min | 14h 50m |
| July | 5:54 AM | 8:28 PM | 7:50 PM – 8:28 PM | 38 min | 14h 35m |
| August | 6:20 AM | 7:59 PM | 7:22 PM – 7:59 PM | 37 min | 13h 39m |
| September | 6:47 AM | 7:13 PM | 6:38 PM – 7:13 PM | 35 min | 12h 26m |
| October | 7:14 AM | 6:27 PM | 5:51 PM – 6:27 PM | 36 min | 11h 13m |
| November | 6:47 AM | 4:52 PM | 4:13 PM – 4:52 PM | 39 min | 10h 05m |
| December | 7:15 AM | 4:45 PM | 4:04 PM – 4:45 PM | 41 min | 9h 30m |
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.
