Golden hour in Santiago, Chile today

Evening golden hour in Santiago, Chile runs 19:09 – 19:57 today, Saturday 26 September — that is 48m of usable low light before blue hour takes over.

This evening

Golden hour: 19:09 – 19:57
Duration: 48m
Sunset: 19:41
Blue hour: 19:57 – 20:06
Sunset direction: 268° (W)

19h 39m until sunset

This morning

Golden hour: 07:11 – 07:59
Duration: 47m
Sunrise: 07:26
Blue hour: 07:01 – 07:11
Sunrise direction: 92° (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 26 Sep	19:09	19:57	48m	19:57 – 20:06	19:41	268° W
Sun 27 Sep	19:09	19:57	48m	19:57 – 20:07	19:42	267° W
Mon 28 Sep	19:10	19:58	48m	19:58 – 20:08	19:43	267° W
Tue 29 Sep	19:11	19:59	48m	19:59 – 20:08	19:44	266° W
Wed 30 Sep	19:11	19:59	48m	19:59 – 20:09	19:44	266° W
Thu 1 Oct	19:12	20:00	48m	20:00 – 20:10	19:45	265° W
Fri 2 Oct	19:13	20:01	48m	20:01 – 20:11	19:46	265° W

Golden hour in September 2026

Evening golden hour start, end and duration for every day of September 2026.
Date	Starts	Ends	Duration	Sunset
Tue 1	17:51	18:40	48m	18:25
Wed 2	17:52	18:41	48m	18:25
Thu 3	17:53	18:41	48m	18:26
Fri 4	17:53	18:42	48m	18:27
Sat 5	17:54	18:43	48m	18:27
Sun 6	18:55	19:43	48m	19:28
Mon 7	18:56	19:44	48m	19:29
Tue 8	18:56	19:45	48m	19:29
Wed 9	18:57	19:45	48m	19:30
Thu 10	18:58	19:46	48m	19:31
Fri 11	18:58	19:47	48m	19:31
Sat 12	18:59	19:47	48m	19:32
Sun 13	19:00	19:48	48m	19:33
Mon 14	19:00	19:49	48m	19:33
Tue 15	19:01	19:49	48m	19:34
Wed 16	19:02	19:50	48m	19:35
Thu 17	19:02	19:51	48m	19:35
Fri 18	19:03	19:51	48m	19:36
Sat 19	19:04	19:52	48m	19:37
Sun 20	19:05	19:53	48m	19:37
Mon 21	19:05	19:53	48m	19:38
Tue 22	19:06	19:54	48m	19:39
Wed 23	19:07	19:55	48m	19:39
Thu 24	19:07	19:55	48m	19:40
Fri 25	19:08	19:56	48m	19:41
Sat 26	19:09	19:57	48m	19:41
Sun 27	19:09	19:57	48m	19:42
Mon 28	19:10	19:58	48m	19:43
Tue 29	19:11	19:59	48m	19:44
Wed 30	19:11	19:59	48m	19:44

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 September the evening window averages about 48 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 2 minutes longer than tonight, and it will start at 19:31.

The light comes from west tonight, at 268° 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.