Kitzbühel Golden Hour (2026): Best Times & Locations

Quick answer: Golden hour in Kitzbuhel lasts about 62 minutes today, measured across the photographic band from 6° above the horizon down to 4° below it. Blue hour adds roughly 33 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.

Photographers visiting Kitzbühel, Austria 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 Kitzbühel 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 Kitzbühel, 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 Kitzbühel regardless of where you load the page from.

How long golden hour lasts in Kitzbuhel today

At 47.4° N, the sun in Kitzbuhel crosses the golden-hour band — from 6° above the horizon to 4° below it — in roughly 62 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 33 minutes of cool, even light after that.

Latitude
47.45° N (northern hemisphere)
Daylight today
13 h 52 min
Sun elevation at solar noon
54°
Evening golden hour length
≈ 62 minutes
Blue hour length
≈ 33 minutes after sunset

Month-by-month light and climate in Kitzbuhel

Daylight, midday sun angle and golden-hour length below are calculated for Kitzbuhel's own coordinates (47.45° N, 12.39° E) on the 15th of each month.

Month Daylight Sun at solar noon Golden hour
January 8 h 48 min 21° 72 min
February 10 h 12 min 29° 64 min
March 11 h 48 min 40° 59 min
April 13 h 36 min 52° 61 min
May 15 h 6 min 61° 67 min
June 15 h 54 min 66° 72 min
July 15 h 36 min 64° 70 min
August 14 h 12 min 56° 63 min
September 12 h 30 min 45° 59 min
October 10 h 48 min 33° 61 min
November 9 h 12 min 23° 69 min
December 8 h 30 min 19° 75 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 Kitzbuhel's own coordinates and time zone. Full details on the methodology page.

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