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Golden Hour in Lynn, MA

Lynn's golden hour is short, specific, and worth planning around. The times below are computed live for Lynn's exact coordinates (42.4668, -70.9495) and update automatically for any date you pick — sunset, sunrise, golden hour and blue hour, all in local time. 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.

Where to shoot it

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.

In Lynn, sunset ranges from 4:10 PM in December to 8:25 PM in June. Every time on this page is calculated for Lynn's coordinates (42.4668, -70.9495) and shown in America/New_York.

Sunrise, sunset and golden hour in Lynn by month

MonthSunriseSunsetGolden hour (evening)LengthDaylight
January7:10 AM4:36 PM3:52 PM – 4:36 PM44 min9h 26m
February6:40 AM5:16 PM4:36 PM – 5:16 PM40 min10h 36m
March6:55 AM6:50 PM6:13 PM – 6:50 PM37 min11h 55m
April6:02 AM7:25 PM6:47 PM – 7:25 PM38 min13h 23m
May5:22 AM7:58 PM7:18 PM – 7:58 PM40 min14h 37m
June5:05 AM8:22 PM7:40 PM – 8:22 PM42 min15h 17m
July5:20 AM8:19 PM7:37 PM – 8:19 PM42 min14h 59m
August5:50 AM7:44 PM7:06 PM – 7:44 PM38 min13h 54m
September6:23 AM6:53 PM6:16 PM – 6:53 PM37 min12h 30m
October6:56 AM6:01 PM5:23 PM – 6:01 PM38 min11h 05m
November6:34 AM4:21 PM3:39 PM – 4:21 PM42 min9h 47m
December7:06 AM4:11 PM3:26 PM – 4:11 PM45 min9h 05m

How the light changes through the year in Lynn

Golden hour is not the same length all year in Lynn. It is longest in December at about 45 minutes and shortest in March at about 37 minutes — a difference of 8 minutes of usable warm light per evening.

Lynn gets 6h 12m more daylight on the longest day than the shortest. Sunset moves from 4:11 PM in December to 8:22 PM in June, so an evening shoot that works in summer will be shooting in the dark at the same clock time in winter.

Blue hour follows sunset and is worth planning for separately: in June it runs until about 8:57 PM, and in December until about 4:43 PM.

The year at a glance

  • Earliest sunset: 4:10 PM on December 5
  • Latest sunset: 8:25 PM on June 24
  • Longest day: 15h 18m on June 21
  • Shortest day: 9h 04m on December 21
  • Golden hour length: about 42 minutes in June, 45 minutes in December
  • Time zone: America/New_York

What is golden hour?

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.

Chasing the light for a shoot?

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.