The difference between a flat photo and a glowing one in The Woodlands is usually forty-five minutes. The calculator below shows exactly which forty-five minutes — today's sunset, sunrise, golden and blue hour, live. Note the times below account for The Woodlands's latitude — golden hour runs longer in winter and shorter at midsummer than most charts assume.
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: Don't pack up at sunset — blue hour starts right after, and the 20 minutes of deep-blue sky with city lights on is the most underrated window of the day.
Golden hour in The Woodlands is the hour before sunset — and sunset here runs from 5:21 PM in November to 8:27 PM in June. The table below gives the exact window for every month, in The Woodlands's own time zone.
Use the live times above for today's exact window. As a rule, evening golden hour in The Woodlands starts about 36 minutes before sunset and ends at sunset. In June that is 7:49 PM – 8:25 PM; in December it is 4:47 PM – 5:23 PM.
Sunset in The Woodlands is earliest at 5:21 PM on November 26 and latest at 8:27 PM on June 24, a swing of about 3 hours across the year.
Golden hour lasts about 36 minutes in midsummer and 36 minutes in midwinter. The longest evening golden hour falls in June at about 36 minutes; the shortest is in March at about 32 minutes.
| Month | Sunrise | Sunset | Golden hour (evening) | Length | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7:18 AM | 5:44 PM | 5:09 PM – 5:44 PM | 35 min | 10h 25m |
| February | 7:01 AM | 6:10 PM | 5:37 PM – 6:10 PM | 33 min | 11h 09m |
| March | 7:31 AM | 7:30 PM | 6:58 PM – 7:30 PM | 32 min | 11h 59m |
| April | 6:54 AM | 7:49 PM | 7:17 PM – 7:49 PM | 32 min | 12h 55m |
| May | 6:28 AM | 8:08 PM | 7:35 PM – 8:08 PM | 33 min | 13h 41m |
| June | 6:20 AM | 8:25 PM | 7:49 PM – 8:25 PM | 36 min | 14h 05m |
| July | 6:30 AM | 8:24 PM | 7:50 PM – 8:24 PM | 34 min | 13h 54m |
| August | 6:49 AM | 8:03 PM | 7:30 PM – 8:03 PM | 33 min | 13h 14m |
| September | 7:06 AM | 7:27 PM | 6:55 PM – 7:27 PM | 32 min | 12h 21m |
| October | 7:24 AM | 6:50 PM | 6:18 PM – 6:50 PM | 32 min | 11h 27m |
| November | 6:47 AM | 5:25 PM | 4:51 PM – 5:25 PM | 34 min | 10h 38m |
| December | 7:10 AM | 5:23 PM | 4:47 PM – 5:23 PM | 36 min | 10h 13m |
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.
