Golden hour in Santiago, Chile today

Evening golden hour in Santiago, Chile runs 19:18 – 20:07 today, Saturday 10 October — that is 48m of usable low light before blue hour takes over.

This evening

Golden hour: 19:18 – 20:07
Duration: 48m
Sunset: 19:51
Blue hour: 20:07 – 20:17
Sunset direction: 261° (W)

19h 49m until sunset

This morning

Golden hour: 06:52 – 07:40
Duration: 48m
Sunrise: 07:07
Blue hour: 06:42 – 06:52
Sunrise direction: 99° (E)

The next seven days

Evening golden hour, blue hour and sunset for the coming week in Santiago.
Date	Golden hour starts	Golden hour ends	Duration	Blue hour	Sunset	Sunset direction
Sat 10 Oct	19:18	20:07	48m	20:07 – 20:17	19:51	261° W
Sun 11 Oct	19:19	20:08	48m	20:08 – 20:18	19:52	261° W
Mon 12 Oct	19:20	20:08	48m	20:08 – 20:18	19:53	260° W
Tue 13 Oct	19:21	20:09	48m	20:09 – 20:19	19:54	260° W
Wed 14 Oct	19:21	20:10	48m	20:10 – 20:20	19:55	259° W
Thu 15 Oct	19:22	20:11	48m	20:11 – 20:21	19:55	259° W
Fri 16 Oct	19:23	20:12	48m	20:12 – 20:22	19:56	258° WSW

Golden hour in October 2026

Evening golden hour start, end and duration for every day of October 2026.
Date	Starts	Ends	Duration	Sunset
Thu 1	19:12	20:00	48m	19:45
Fri 2	19:13	20:01	48m	19:46
Sat 3	19:13	20:02	48m	19:46
Sun 4	19:14	20:02	48m	19:47
Mon 5	19:15	20:03	48m	19:48
Tue 6	19:16	20:04	48m	19:49
Wed 7	19:16	20:05	48m	19:49
Thu 8	19:17	20:05	48m	19:50
Fri 9	19:18	20:06	48m	19:51
Sat 10	19:18	20:07	48m	19:51
Sun 11	19:19	20:08	48m	19:52
Mon 12	19:20	20:08	48m	19:53
Tue 13	19:21	20:09	48m	19:54
Wed 14	19:21	20:10	48m	19:55
Thu 15	19:22	20:11	48m	19:55
Fri 16	19:23	20:12	48m	19:56
Sat 17	19:24	20:13	48m	19:57
Sun 18	19:24	20:13	48m	19:58
Mon 19	19:25	20:14	49m	19:59
Tue 20	19:26	20:15	49m	19:59
Wed 21	19:27	20:16	49m	20:00
Thu 22	19:28	20:17	49m	20:01
Fri 23	19:28	20:18	49m	20:02
Sat 24	19:29	20:19	49m	20:03
Sun 25	19:30	20:19	49m	20:04
Mon 26	19:31	20:20	49m	20:04
Tue 27	19:31	20:21	49m	20:05
Wed 28	19:32	20:22	49m	20:06
Thu 29	19:33	20:23	49m	20:07
Fri 30	19:34	20:24	50m	20:08
Sat 31	19:35	20:25	50m	20:09

How much golden light each month gives you

Total evening golden-hour minutes available in each month. June is the strongest, at about 27 hours across the month; the year ranges by 13%.

What the numbers mean for Santiago

Through October the evening window averages about 49 minutes a day here.

June is the most generous month at roughly 55 minutes an evening, and March the tightest at about 48 minutes — a difference of 1.1×. That gap is geometry, not weather: the shallower the sun meets the horizon, the longer it spends crossing the golden band.

A month from now the evening window will be about 3 minutes longer than tonight, and it will start at 19:42.

The light comes from west tonight, at 261° on the compass. Check that against your viewpoint before committing to it — the bearing moves through the year, as the table above shows.

What counts as golden hour

Golden hour is defined here by the sun’s altitude, not by a fixed number of minutes. It runs while the sun sits between +6° and −4° relative to the horizon: high enough to still light the scene, low enough that the light has travelled through a long path of atmosphere and lost its blue.

Below −4° the direct light is gone and blue hour takes over, running to −6° where civil twilight ends. Because the definition is angular, the length of golden hour depends on how steeply the sun meets the horizon — which is a function of latitude and season, not of the clock. That is why it lasts 48m here today and about 40 minutes at the equator.

Full definitions of every term used here — golden hour, blue hour, altitude, azimuth — are in the glossary.

Full sunrise and sunset times for Santiago Twilight, solar noon, moon phases, the monthly calendar and the year in one chart.