Conditions on this page are recalculated from the latest forecast every time it is opened, for the current date in the location's own time zone.
Photography inverts most weather intuition, and this decision page is scored accordingly. A cloudless blue sky is a poor landscape day — the light is harsh at midday, the sky is empty at sunset, and there is nothing for golden hour colour to catch. The best conditions are broken cloud between roughly 30 and 70 percent coverage, ideally mid and high level, which gives structure, dramatic light shafts and saturated sunsets. Full overcast is bad for landscapes but excellent for portraits, forest interiors, waterfalls and street work, so the score reports the type of photography the day suits rather than issuing a single pass or fail. Wind is scored for its effect on the technique available to you: above 25 kilometres per hour, long exposures with foliage or water reflections become impractical and a tripod needs weighting. Haze and high humidity reduce distance clarity and matter most for telephoto compression and mountain panoramas. Rain is not automatically negative — the twenty minutes after a shower clears frequently produce the best light of the entire day, and clearing-front timing is called out explicitly when the models support it. Golden hour and blue hour windows are given in the destination's local timezone with solar altitude, and a seven-day outlook lets you place the shoot on the evening that deserves it.
Scores are capped by dealbreakers — heavy rain, dangerous wind, thick fog or hazardous UV pull a day down no matter how pleasant the rest of the numbers look. Forecast data is Open-Meteo; solar and lunar values are computed for Good Day Photography's own coordinates and time zone. Full details on the methodology page.