Great light in Palmdale isn't luck — it's timing. This page calculates today's sunset, sunrise, golden hour and blue hour for Palmdale's exact location, live, and works for any date you choose. 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: Golden hour moves every single day. If you're planning a shoot more than a week out, check the date itself — the window can shift by 20+ minutes.
Golden hour in Palmdale is the hour before sunset — and sunset here runs from 4:41 PM in November to 8:09 PM in June. The table below gives the exact window for every month, in Palmdale's own time zone.
Use the live times above for today's exact window. As a rule, evening golden hour in Palmdale starts about 38 minutes before sunset and ends at sunset. In June that is 7:29 PM – 8:07 PM; in December it is 4:04 PM – 4:43 PM.
Sunset in Palmdale is earliest at 4:41 PM on November 30 and latest at 8:09 PM on June 24, a swing of about 3 hours across the year.
Golden hour lasts about 38 minutes in midsummer and 39 minutes in midwinter. The longest evening golden hour falls in December at about 39 minutes; the shortest is in March at about 33 minutes.
| Month | Sunrise | Sunset | Golden hour (evening) | Length | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6:58 AM | 5:05 PM | 4:27 PM – 5:05 PM | 38 min | 10h 06m |
| February | 6:37 AM | 5:35 PM | 5:01 PM – 5:35 PM | 34 min | 10h 58m |
| March | 7:02 AM | 7:00 PM | 6:27 PM – 7:00 PM | 33 min | 11h 58m |
| April | 6:20 AM | 7:24 PM | 6:50 PM – 7:24 PM | 34 min | 13h 04m |
| May | 5:49 AM | 7:48 PM | 7:12 PM – 7:48 PM | 36 min | 13h 59m |
| June | 5:39 AM | 8:07 PM | 7:29 PM – 8:07 PM | 38 min | 14h 28m |
| July | 5:51 AM | 8:05 PM | 7:29 PM – 8:05 PM | 36 min | 14h 15m |
| August | 6:13 AM | 7:39 PM | 7:05 PM – 7:39 PM | 34 min | 13h 27m |
| September | 6:35 AM | 6:58 PM | 6:25 PM – 6:58 PM | 33 min | 12h 23m |
| October | 6:58 AM | 6:17 PM | 5:43 PM – 6:17 PM | 34 min | 11h 19m |
| November | 6:26 AM | 4:47 PM | 4:11 PM – 4:47 PM | 36 min | 10h 21m |
| December | 6:52 AM | 4:43 PM | 4:04 PM – 4:43 PM | 39 min | 9h 51m |
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.
