Golden hour in Kyiv, Ukraine today

Evening golden hour in Kyiv, Ukraine runs 17:32 – 18:37 today, Saturday 10 October — that is 1h 4m of usable low light before blue hour takes over.

This evening

Golden hour: 17:32 – 18:37
Duration: 1h 4m
Sunset: 18:16
Blue hour: 18:37 – 18:49
Sunset direction: 260° (W)

18h 14m until sunset

This morning

Golden hour: 06:51 – 07:56
Duration: 1h 4m
Sunrise: 07:11
Blue hour: 06:39 – 06:51
Sunrise direction: 99° (E)

The next seven days

Evening golden hour, blue hour and sunset for the coming week in Kyiv.
Date	Golden hour starts	Golden hour ends	Duration	Blue hour	Sunset	Sunset direction
Sat 10 Oct	17:32	18:37	1h 4m	18:37 – 18:49	18:16	260° W
Sun 11 Oct	17:30	18:34	1h 4m	18:34 – 18:47	18:14	260° W
Mon 12 Oct	17:28	18:32	1h 4m	18:32 – 18:45	18:12	259° W
Tue 13 Oct	17:26	18:30	1h 4m	18:30 – 18:43	18:10	259° WSW
Wed 14 Oct	17:23	18:28	1h 4m	18:28 – 18:41	18:08	258° WSW
Thu 15 Oct	17:21	18:26	1h 5m	18:26 – 18:39	18:06	257° WSW
Fri 16 Oct	17:19	18:24	1h 5m	18:24 – 18:37	18:04	257° 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	17:53	18:56	1h 3m	18:36
Fri 2	17:50	18:54	1h 3m	18:34
Sat 3	17:48	18:52	1h 3m	18:32
Sun 4	17:46	18:49	1h 3m	18:29
Mon 5	17:44	18:47	1h 3m	18:27
Tue 6	17:41	18:45	1h 3m	18:25
Wed 7	17:39	18:43	1h 3m	18:23
Thu 8	17:37	18:41	1h 4m	18:21
Fri 9	17:35	18:39	1h 4m	18:19
Sat 10	17:32	18:37	1h 4m	18:16
Sun 11	17:30	18:34	1h 4m	18:14
Mon 12	17:28	18:32	1h 4m	18:12
Tue 13	17:26	18:30	1h 4m	18:10
Wed 14	17:23	18:28	1h 4m	18:08
Thu 15	17:21	18:26	1h 5m	18:06
Fri 16	17:19	18:24	1h 5m	18:04
Sat 17	17:17	18:22	1h 5m	18:02
Sun 18	17:14	18:20	1h 5m	18:00
Mon 19	17:12	18:18	1h 5m	17:58
Tue 20	17:10	18:16	1h 6m	17:56
Wed 21	17:08	18:14	1h 6m	17:54
Thu 22	17:06	18:12	1h 6m	17:52
Fri 23	17:04	18:11	1h 6m	17:50
Sat 24	17:02	18:09	1h 7m	17:48
Sun 25	15:59	17:07	1h 7m	16:46
Mon 26	15:57	17:05	1h 7m	16:44
Tue 27	15:55	17:03	1h 7m	16:42
Wed 28	15:53	17:01	1h 8m	16:40
Thu 29	15:51	17:00	1h 8m	16:39
Fri 30	15:49	16:58	1h 8m	16:37
Sat 31	15:47	16:56	1h 8m	16:35

How much golden light each month gives you

Total evening golden-hour minutes available in each month. December is the strongest, at about 42 hours across the month; the year ranges by 23%.

What the numbers mean for Kyiv

Through October the evening window averages about 66 minutes a day here.

December is the most generous month at roughly 82 minutes an evening, and September the tightest at about 63 minutes — a difference of 1.3×. 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 8 minutes longer than tonight, and it will start at 15:30.

The light comes from west tonight, at 260° 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 4m 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 Kyiv Twilight, solar noon, moon phases, the monthly calendar and the year in one chart.