Quick answer: Golden hour in Trolltunga lasts about 87 minutes today, measured across the photographic band from 6° above the horizon down to 4° below it. Blue hour adds roughly 48 more minutes afterwards. The morning window is the same length, mirrored around sunrise.
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Photographers visiting Trolltunga, Norway 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 Trolltunga 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 Trolltunga, 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 Trolltunga regardless of where you load the page from.
At 60.1° N, the sun in Trolltunga crosses the golden-hour band — from 6° above the horizon to 4° below it — in roughly 87 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 48 minutes of cool, even light after that.
Daylight, midday sun angle and golden-hour length below are calculated for Trolltunga's own coordinates (60.12° N, 6.74° E) on the 15th of each month. Temperature and rain-day figures come from the curated climate record for this city.
| Month | Daylight | Sun at solar noon | Golden hour | Avg high / low, rain days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6 h 36 min | 9° | 131 min | 2°C / -8°C, 9 rain days |
| February | 9 h 0 min | 17° | 93 min | 2°C / -8°C, 9 rain days |
| March | 11 h 36 min | 27° | 81 min | 4°C / -6°C, 8 rain days |
| April | 14 h 30 min | 39° | 85 min | 7°C / -3°C, 8 rain days |
| May | 17 h 6 min | 49° | 104 min | 11°C / 1°C, 6 rain days |
| June | 18 h 54 min | 53° | 132 min | 14°C / 4°C, 6 rain days |
| July | 18 h 6 min | 51° | 117 min | 16°C / 6°C, 2 rain days |
| August | 15 h 36 min | 44° | 91 min | 16°C / 6°C, 2 rain days |
| September | 12 h 42 min | 32° | 81 min | 14°C / 4°C, 2 rain days |
| October | 10 h 0 min | 20° | 87 min | 11°C / 1°C, 14 rain days |
| November | 7 h 18 min | 11° | 114 min | 7°C / -3°C, 12 rain days |
| December | 5 h 54 min | 7° | 166 min | 4°C / -6°C, 12 rain days |
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 Trolltunga's own coordinates and time zone. Full details on the methodology page.