Golden hour in Oslo, Norway today

Evening golden hour in Oslo, Norway runs 17:25 – 18:48 today, Saturday 10 October — that is 1h 23m of usable low light before blue hour takes over.

This evening

Golden hour: 17:25 – 18:48
Duration: 1h 23m
Sunset: 18:23
Blue hour: 18:48 – 19:04
Sunset direction: 258° (WSW)

18h 21m until sunset

This morning

Golden hour: 07:18 – 08:41
Duration: 1h 23m
Sunrise: 07:43
Blue hour: 07:02 – 07:18
Sunrise direction: 102° (ESE)

The next seven days

Evening golden hour, blue hour and sunset for the coming week in Oslo.
Date	Golden hour starts	Golden hour ends	Duration	Blue hour	Sunset	Sunset direction
Sat 10 Oct	17:25	18:48	1h 23m	18:48 – 19:04	18:23	258° WSW
Sun 11 Oct	17:22	18:45	1h 23m	18:45 – 19:01	18:20	257° WSW
Mon 12 Oct	17:19	18:42	1h 23m	18:42 – 18:59	18:17	256° WSW
Tue 13 Oct	17:16	18:40	1h 24m	18:40 – 18:56	18:14	255° WSW
Wed 14 Oct	17:12	18:37	1h 24m	18:37 – 18:53	18:11	255° WSW
Thu 15 Oct	17:09	18:34	1h 24m	18:34 – 18:50	18:08	254° WSW
Fri 16 Oct	17:06	18:31	1h 25m	18:31 – 18:47	18:05	253° 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	17:54	19:15	1h 20m	18:49
Fri 2	17:51	19:12	1h 21m	18:46
Sat 3	17:48	19:09	1h 21m	18:43
Sun 4	17:44	19:06	1h 21m	18:40
Mon 5	17:41	19:03	1h 21m	18:37
Tue 6	17:38	19:00	1h 21m	18:35
Wed 7	17:35	18:57	1h 22m	18:32
Thu 8	17:32	18:54	1h 22m	18:29
Fri 9	17:28	18:51	1h 22m	18:26
Sat 10	17:25	18:48	1h 23m	18:23
Sun 11	17:22	18:45	1h 23m	18:20
Mon 12	17:19	18:42	1h 23m	18:17
Tue 13	17:16	18:40	1h 24m	18:14
Wed 14	17:12	18:37	1h 24m	18:11
Thu 15	17:09	18:34	1h 24m	18:08
Fri 16	17:06	18:31	1h 25m	18:05
Sat 17	17:03	18:28	1h 25m	18:02
Sun 18	16:59	18:26	1h 26m	17:59
Mon 19	16:56	18:23	1h 26m	17:57
Tue 20	16:53	18:20	1h 27m	17:54
Wed 21	16:50	18:17	1h 27m	17:51
Thu 22	16:46	18:15	1h 28m	17:48
Fri 23	16:43	18:12	1h 28m	17:45
Sat 24	16:40	18:09	1h 29m	17:43
Sun 25	15:37	17:07	1h 30m	16:40
Mon 26	15:33	17:04	1h 30m	16:37
Tue 27	15:30	17:02	1h 31m	16:34
Wed 28	15:27	16:59	1h 32m	16:32
Thu 29	15:24	16:56	1h 32m	16:29
Fri 30	15:20	16:54	1h 33m	16:26
Sat 31	15:17	16:51	1h 34m	16:24

How much golden light each month gives you

Total evening golden-hour minutes available in each month. December is the strongest, at about 79 hours across the month; the year ranges by 47%.

What the numbers mean for Oslo

Through October the evening window averages about 86 minutes a day here.

December is the most generous month at roughly 2h 32m an evening, and March the tightest at about 81 minutes — a difference of 1.9×. 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 20 minutes longer than tonight, and it will start at 14:48.

The light comes from west-southwest tonight, at 258° 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 1h 23m 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 Oslo Twilight, solar noon, moon phases, the monthly calendar and the year in one chart.