Photographers plan around two windows: the hour after sunrise and the hour before sunset. Here are both for Peoria — 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.
Golden hour in Peoria is the hour before sunset — and sunset here runs from 4:30 PM in December to 8:33 PM in June. The table below gives the exact window for every month, in Peoria's own time zone.
Use the live times above for today's exact window. As a rule, evening golden hour in Peoria starts about 41 minutes before sunset and ends at sunset. In June that is 7:50 PM – 8:31 PM; in December it is 3:48 PM – 4:31 PM.
Sunset in Peoria is earliest at 4:30 PM on December 5 and latest at 8:33 PM on June 21, a swing of about 4 hours across the year.
Golden hour lasts about 41 minutes in midsummer and 43 minutes in midwinter. The longest evening golden hour falls in December at about 43 minutes; the shortest is in March at about 36 minutes.
| Month | Sunrise | Sunset | Golden hour (evening) | Length | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7:20 AM | 4:55 PM | 4:13 PM – 4:55 PM | 42 min | 9h 36m |
| February | 6:52 AM | 5:33 PM | 4:55 PM – 5:33 PM | 38 min | 10h 41m |
| March | 7:09 AM | 7:05 PM | 6:29 PM – 7:05 PM | 36 min | 11h 55m |
| April | 6:19 AM | 7:37 PM | 7:01 PM – 7:37 PM | 36 min | 13h 18m |
| May | 5:41 AM | 8:08 PM | 7:29 PM – 8:08 PM | 39 min | 14h 28m |
| June | 5:26 AM | 8:31 PM | 7:50 PM – 8:31 PM | 41 min | 15h 05m |
| July | 5:40 AM | 8:28 PM | 7:47 PM – 8:28 PM | 41 min | 14h 48m |
| August | 6:08 AM | 7:56 PM | 7:18 PM – 7:56 PM | 38 min | 13h 47m |
| September | 6:39 AM | 7:07 PM | 6:31 PM – 7:07 PM | 36 min | 12h 28m |
| October | 7:09 AM | 6:17 PM | 5:40 PM – 6:17 PM | 37 min | 11h 08m |
| November | 6:45 AM | 4:40 PM | 3:59 PM – 4:40 PM | 41 min | 9h 55m |
| December | 7:15 AM | 4:31 PM | 3:48 PM – 4:31 PM | 43 min | 9h 17m |
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.
