Great light in Sterling Heights isn't luck — it's timing. This page calculates today's sunset, sunrise, golden hour and blue hour for Sterling Heights'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: Reflections double golden hour: water, glass buildings and wet pavement all pick up the sky's color in the hour around sunset.
Golden hour in Sterling Heights is the hour before sunset — and sunset here runs from 4:58 PM in December to 9:13 PM in June. The table below gives the exact window for every month, in Sterling Heights's own time zone.
Use the live times above for today's exact window. As a rule, evening golden hour in Sterling Heights starts about 43 minutes before sunset and ends at sunset. In June that is 8:28 PM – 9:11 PM; in December it is 4:13 PM – 4:59 PM.
Sunset in Sterling Heights is earliest at 4:58 PM on December 5 and latest at 9:13 PM on June 20, a swing of about 4 hours across the year.
Golden hour lasts about 43 minutes in midsummer and 46 minutes in midwinter. The longest evening golden hour falls in December at about 46 minutes; the shortest is in March at about 37 minutes.
| Month | Sunrise | Sunset | Golden hour (evening) | Length | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7:59 AM | 5:24 PM | 4:40 PM – 5:24 PM | 44 min | 9h 25m |
| February | 7:28 AM | 6:04 PM | 5:24 PM – 6:04 PM | 40 min | 10h 35m |
| March | 7:43 AM | 7:38 PM | 7:01 PM – 7:38 PM | 37 min | 11h 55m |
| April | 6:50 AM | 8:14 PM | 7:36 PM – 8:14 PM | 38 min | 13h 23m |
| May | 6:09 AM | 8:47 PM | 8:07 PM – 8:47 PM | 40 min | 14h 38m |
| June | 5:53 AM | 9:11 PM | 8:28 PM – 9:11 PM | 43 min | 15h 18m |
| July | 6:08 AM | 9:07 PM | 8:26 PM – 9:07 PM | 41 min | 15h 00m |
| August | 6:38 AM | 8:33 PM | 7:54 PM – 8:33 PM | 39 min | 13h 54m |
| September | 7:12 AM | 7:41 PM | 7:04 PM – 7:41 PM | 37 min | 12h 30m |
| October | 7:45 AM | 6:49 PM | 6:11 PM – 6:49 PM | 38 min | 11h 04m |
| November | 7:23 AM | 5:09 PM | 4:27 PM – 5:09 PM | 42 min | 9h 46m |
| December | 7:55 AM | 4:59 PM | 4:13 PM – 4:59 PM | 46 min | 9h 04m |
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.
