Great light in St. Petersburg isn't luck — it's timing. This page calculates today's sunset, sunrise, golden hour and blue hour for St. Petersburg's exact location, live, and works for any date you choose. On this side of the country, sunrise is the underrated window — the sun comes up over the Atlantic side and morning golden hour is quieter than the evening one.
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 St. Petersburg, sunset ranges from 5:35 PM in November to 8:30 PM in June. Evening golden hour lasts about 35 minutes at the summer solstice and 35 minutes at the winter solstice. Times below are local to St. Petersburg (America/New_York).
| Month | Sunrise | Sunset | Golden hour (evening) | Length | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7:22 AM | 5:57 PM | 5:23 PM – 5:57 PM | 34 min | 10h 35m |
| February | 7:07 AM | 6:22 PM | 5:49 PM – 6:22 PM | 33 min | 11h 14m |
| March | 7:40 AM | 7:39 PM | 7:08 PM – 7:39 PM | 31 min | 11h 59m |
| April | 7:05 AM | 7:55 PM | 7:24 PM – 7:55 PM | 31 min | 12h 50m |
| May | 6:41 AM | 8:13 PM | 7:40 PM – 8:13 PM | 33 min | 13h 32m |
| June | 6:34 AM | 8:28 PM | 7:53 PM – 8:28 PM | 35 min | 13h 54m |
| July | 6:44 AM | 8:28 PM | 7:55 PM – 8:28 PM | 33 min | 13h 44m |
| August | 7:01 AM | 8:08 PM | 7:36 PM – 8:08 PM | 32 min | 13h 08m |
| September | 7:16 AM | 7:35 PM | 7:04 PM – 7:35 PM | 31 min | 12h 19m |
| October | 7:30 AM | 7:01 PM | 6:30 PM – 7:01 PM | 31 min | 11h 31m |
| November | 6:52 AM | 5:38 PM | 5:04 PM – 5:38 PM | 34 min | 10h 46m |
| December | 7:14 AM | 5:37 PM | 5:02 PM – 5:37 PM | 35 min | 10h 24m |
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.
