Quick answer: Golden hour in Chattanooga lasts about 50 minutes today, measured across the photographic band from 6° above the horizon down to 4° below it. Blue hour adds roughly 26 more minutes afterwards. The morning window is the same length, mirrored around sunrise.
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. Showing .
Photographers visiting Chattanooga, USA need precise local timing — and conditions. This page shows today's morning and evening golden hour windows, blue hour windows, civil twilight, sunrise and sunset for Chattanooga in the city's local timezone, alongside a photography score that combines cloud cover, atmospheric clarity, wind speed and humidity. Use it to plan portrait sessions in soft side-light, capture skylines during the warm hour after sunrise, or schedule landscape shoots when haze is low. The page also previews the next 7 days of golden hour weather so you can pick the best day for your shoot in Chattanooga, with a clear indication of forecast confidence and how stable the conditions are. All calculations are done with timezone-aware solar math, so the times shown are always correct for Chattanooga regardless of where you load the page from.
At 35.0° N, the sun in Chattanooga crosses the golden-hour band — from 6° above the horizon to 4° below it — in roughly 50 minutes in mid-August. Closer to the equator the sun sets almost vertically, which shortens golden hour; at higher latitudes it slides sideways and the window stretches. Blue hour — sunset to 6° below the horizon — adds about 26 minutes of cool, even light after that.
Daylight, midday sun angle and golden-hour length below are calculated for Chattanooga's own coordinates (35.05° N, 85.31° W) on the 15th of each month.
| Month | Daylight | Sun at solar noon | Golden hour |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 10 h 0 min | 34° | 55 min |
| February | 10 h 54 min | 42° | 51 min |
| March | 11 h 54 min | 52° | 49 min |
| April | 13 h 0 min | 64° | 50 min |
| May | 14 h 0 min | 74° | 53 min |
| June | 14 h 30 min | 78° | 55 min |
| July | 14 h 18 min | 76° | 54 min |
| August | 13 h 30 min | 69° | 51 min |
| September | 12 h 18 min | 57° | 49 min |
| October | 11 h 12 min | 45° | 50 min |
| November | 10 h 18 min | 36° | 54 min |
| December | 9 h 48 min | 32° | 56 min |
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 Chattanooga's own coordinates and time zone. Full details on the methodology page.