Park City Golden Hour (2026): Best Times & Locations

Quick answer: Golden hour in Park City lasts about 54 minutes today, measured across the photographic band from 6° above the horizon down to 4° below it. Blue hour adds roughly 29 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 Park City, 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 Park City 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 Park City, 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 Park City regardless of where you load the page from.

How long golden hour lasts in Park City today

At 40.6° N, the sun in Park City crosses the golden-hour band — from 6° above the horizon to 4° below it — in roughly 54 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 29 minutes of cool, even light after that.

Latitude
40.65° N (northern hemisphere)
Daylight today
13 h 29 min
Sun elevation at solar noon
61°
Evening golden hour length
≈ 54 minutes
Blue hour length
≈ 29 minutes after sunset

Month-by-month light and climate in Park City

Daylight, midday sun angle and golden-hour length below are calculated for Park City's own coordinates (40.65° N, 111.50° W) on the 15th of each month.

Month Daylight Sun at solar noon Golden hour
January 9 h 36 min 28° 61 min
February 10 h 36 min 36° 56 min
March 11 h 48 min 47° 53 min
April 13 h 12 min 59° 54 min
May 14 h 24 min 68° 58 min
June 15 h 6 min 73° 61 min
July 14 h 48 min 71° 60 min
August 13 h 48 min 63° 55 min
September 12 h 24 min 52° 53 min
October 11 h 0 min 40° 54 min
November 9 h 48 min 30° 59 min
December 9 h 18 min 26° 63 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 Park City's own coordinates and time zone. Full details on the methodology page.

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