Great light in Sioux City isn't luck — it's timing. This page calculates today's sunset, sunrise, golden hour and blue hour for Sioux City's exact location, live, and works for any date you choose.
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: Find an open west-facing view for sunset and an east-facing one for sunrise — buildings and hills eat the last 15 minutes of light in most city centers.
In Sioux City, sunset ranges from 4:52 PM in December to 9:07 PM in June. Every time on this page is calculated for Sioux City's coordinates (42.5, -96.4003) and shown in America/Chicago.
| Month | Sunrise | Sunset | Golden hour (evening) | Length | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7:52 AM | 5:18 PM | 4:34 PM – 5:18 PM | 44 min | 9h 26m |
| February | 7:22 AM | 5:57 PM | 5:18 PM – 5:57 PM | 39 min | 10h 36m |
| March | 7:37 AM | 7:32 PM | 6:54 PM – 7:32 PM | 38 min | 11h 55m |
| April | 6:44 AM | 8:07 PM | 7:29 PM – 8:07 PM | 38 min | 13h 23m |
| May | 6:03 AM | 8:40 PM | 8:00 PM – 8:40 PM | 40 min | 14h 37m |
| June | 5:47 AM | 9:04 PM | 8:22 PM – 9:04 PM | 42 min | 15h 17m |
| July | 6:01 AM | 9:00 PM | 8:19 PM – 9:00 PM | 41 min | 14h 59m |
| August | 6:32 AM | 8:26 PM | 7:48 PM – 8:26 PM | 38 min | 13h 54m |
| September | 7:05 AM | 7:35 PM | 6:58 PM – 7:35 PM | 37 min | 12h 29m |
| October | 7:38 AM | 6:43 PM | 6:04 PM – 6:43 PM | 39 min | 11h 04m |
| November | 7:16 AM | 5:03 PM | 4:20 PM – 5:03 PM | 43 min | 9h 46m |
| December | 7:48 AM | 4:53 PM | 4:07 PM – 4:53 PM | 46 min | 9h 05m |
Golden hour is not the same length all year in Sioux City. It is longest in December at about 46 minutes and shortest in September at about 37 minutes — a difference of 9 minutes of usable warm light per evening.
Sioux City gets 6h 12m more daylight on the longest day than the shortest. Sunset moves from 4:53 PM in December to 9:04 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 9:39 PM, and in December until about 5:25 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.
