Tasmania Golden Hour (2026): Best Times & Locations

Quick answer: Golden hour in Tasmania lasts about 56 minutes today, measured across the photographic band from 6° above the horizon down to 4° below it. Blue hour adds roughly 28 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 Tasmania, Australia 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 Tasmania 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 Tasmania, 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 Tasmania regardless of where you load the page from.

How long golden hour lasts in Tasmania today

At 42.0° S, the sun in Tasmania crosses the golden-hour band — from 6° above the horizon to 4° below it — in roughly 56 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 28 minutes of cool, even light after that.

Latitude
42.04° S (southern hemisphere)
Daylight today
10 h 45 min
Sun elevation at solar noon
37°
Evening golden hour length
≈ 56 minutes
Blue hour length
≈ 28 minutes after sunset

Month-by-month light and climate in Tasmania

Daylight, midday sun angle and golden-hour length below are calculated for Tasmania's own coordinates (42.04° S, 146.81° E) on the 15th of each month.

Month Daylight Sun at solar noon Golden hour
January 14 h 54 min 69° 61 min
February 13 h 48 min 61° 56 min
March 12 h 30 min 51° 54 min
April 11 h 0 min 39° 56 min
May 9 h 48 min 29° 60 min
June 9 h 6 min 25° 65 min
July 9 h 24 min 26° 63 min
August 10 h 30 min 34° 57 min
September 11 h 54 min 46° 54 min
October 13 h 18 min 58° 55 min
November 14 h 36 min 67° 60 min
December 15 h 12 min 71° 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 Tasmania's own coordinates and time zone. Full details on the methodology page.

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