Photographers plan around two windows: the hour after sunrise and the hour before sunset. Here are both for Norman — computed live for its exact coordinates, accurate 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 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 Norman, sunset ranges from 5:17 PM in November to 8:48 PM in June. Every time on this page is calculated for Norman's coordinates (35.2226, -97.4395) and shown in America/Chicago.
| Month | Sunrise | Sunset | Golden hour (evening) | Length | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7:37 AM | 5:41 PM | 5:03 PM – 5:41 PM | 38 min | 10h 03m |
| February | 7:15 AM | 6:12 PM | 5:37 PM – 6:12 PM | 35 min | 10h 57m |
| March | 7:40 AM | 7:37 PM | 7:03 PM – 7:37 PM | 34 min | 11h 57m |
| April | 6:57 AM | 8:02 PM | 7:28 PM – 8:02 PM | 34 min | 13h 05m |
| May | 6:25 AM | 8:27 PM | 7:51 PM – 8:27 PM | 36 min | 14h 01m |
| June | 6:14 AM | 8:46 PM | 8:08 PM – 8:46 PM | 38 min | 14h 31m |
| July | 6:26 AM | 8:44 PM | 8:07 PM – 8:44 PM | 37 min | 14h 18m |
| August | 6:49 AM | 8:18 PM | 7:43 PM – 8:18 PM | 35 min | 13h 29m |
| September | 7:12 AM | 7:36 PM | 7:03 PM – 7:36 PM | 33 min | 12h 24m |
| October | 7:36 AM | 6:54 PM | 6:20 PM – 6:54 PM | 34 min | 11h 18m |
| November | 7:04 AM | 5:23 PM | 4:46 PM – 5:23 PM | 37 min | 10h 19m |
| December | 7:31 AM | 5:18 PM | 4:39 PM – 5:18 PM | 39 min | 9h 48m |
Golden hour is not the same length all year in Norman. It is longest in December at about 39 minutes and shortest in September at about 33 minutes — a difference of 6 minutes of usable warm light per evening.
Norman gets 4h 43m more daylight on the longest day than the shortest. Sunset moves from 5:18 PM in December to 8:46 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 9:15 PM, and in December until about 5:47 PM.
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.
