Redwood City's golden hour is short, specific, and worth planning around. The times below are computed live for Redwood City's exact coordinates (37.4852, -122.2364) and update automatically for any date you pick — sunset, sunrise, golden hour and blue hour, all in local time. 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: Arrive 30 minutes before the golden hour window opens. Setup always takes longer than planned, and the first ten minutes of good light are often the best.
Golden hour in Redwood City is the hour before sunset — and sunset here runs from 4:50 PM in December to 8:34 PM in June. The table below gives the exact window for every month, in Redwood City's own time zone.
Use the live times above for today's exact window. As a rule, evening golden hour in Redwood City starts about 39 minutes before sunset and ends at sunset. In June that is 7:52 PM – 8:31 PM; in December it is 4:11 PM – 4:52 PM.
Sunset in Redwood City is earliest at 4:50 PM on December 2 and latest at 8:34 PM on June 25, a swing of about 4 hours across the year.
Golden hour lasts about 39 minutes in midsummer and 41 minutes in midwinter. The longest evening golden hour falls in December at about 41 minutes; the shortest is in March at about 35 minutes.
| Month | Sunrise | Sunset | Golden hour (evening) | Length | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7:22 AM | 5:14 PM | 4:35 PM – 5:14 PM | 39 min | 9h 53m |
| February | 6:57 AM | 5:48 PM | 5:12 PM – 5:48 PM | 36 min | 10h 51m |
| March | 7:19 AM | 7:16 PM | 6:41 PM – 7:16 PM | 35 min | 11h 57m |
| April | 6:33 AM | 7:44 PM | 7:09 PM – 7:44 PM | 35 min | 13h 11m |
| May | 5:59 AM | 8:11 PM | 7:34 PM – 8:11 PM | 37 min | 14h 12m |
| June | 5:47 AM | 8:31 PM | 7:52 PM – 8:31 PM | 39 min | 14h 44m |
| July | 6:00 AM | 8:29 PM | 7:51 PM – 8:29 PM | 38 min | 14h 30m |
| August | 6:25 AM | 8:01 PM | 7:25 PM – 8:01 PM | 36 min | 13h 36m |
| September | 6:51 AM | 7:16 PM | 6:41 PM – 7:16 PM | 35 min | 12h 25m |
| October | 7:17 AM | 6:31 PM | 5:56 PM – 6:31 PM | 35 min | 11h 14m |
| November | 6:48 AM | 4:58 PM | 4:19 PM – 4:58 PM | 39 min | 10h 09m |
| December | 7:16 AM | 4:52 PM | 4:11 PM – 4:52 PM | 41 min | 9h 36m |
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.
