Golden hour in Astana, Kazakhstan today

Evening golden hour in Astana, Kazakhstan runs 17:20 – 18:24 today, Saturday 26 September — that is 1h 3m of usable low light before blue hour takes over.

This evening

Golden hour: 17:20 – 18:24
Duration: 1h 3m
Sunset: 18:04
Blue hour: 18:24 – 18:37
Sunset direction: 269° (W)

18h 2m until sunset

This morning

Golden hour: 05:45 – 06:50
Duration: 1h 4m
Sunrise: 06:06
Blue hour: 05:33 – 05:45
Sunrise direction: 91° (E)

The next seven days

Evening golden hour, blue hour and sunset for the coming week in Astana.
Date	Golden hour starts	Golden hour ends	Duration	Blue hour	Sunset	Sunset direction
Sat 26 Sep	17:20	18:24	1h 3m	18:24 – 18:37	18:04	269° W
Sun 27 Sep	17:18	18:22	1h 4m	18:22 – 18:34	18:01	268° W
Mon 28 Sep	17:15	18:19	1h 4m	18:19 – 18:32	17:59	268° W
Tue 29 Sep	17:13	18:17	1h 4m	18:17 – 18:30	17:57	267° W
Wed 30 Sep	17:11	18:15	1h 4m	18:15 – 18:27	17:55	266° W
Thu 1 Oct	17:08	18:12	1h 4m	18:12 – 18:25	17:52	266° W
Fri 2 Oct	17:06	18:10	1h 4m	18:10 – 18:23	17:50	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	18:16	19:21	1h 5m	19:00
Wed 2	18:14	19:19	1h 5m	18:58
Thu 3	18:12	19:17	1h 4m	18:56
Fri 4	18:10	19:14	1h 4m	18:54
Sat 5	18:07	19:12	1h 4m	18:51
Sun 6	18:05	19:10	1h 4m	18:49
Mon 7	18:03	19:08	1h 4m	18:47
Tue 8	18:01	19:05	1h 4m	18:45
Wed 9	17:59	19:03	1h 4m	18:42
Thu 10	17:56	19:01	1h 4m	18:40
Fri 11	17:54	18:58	1h 4m	18:38
Sat 12	17:52	18:56	1h 4m	18:36
Sun 13	17:50	18:54	1h 4m	18:33
Mon 14	17:47	18:51	1h 4m	18:31
Tue 15	17:45	18:49	1h 3m	18:29
Wed 16	17:43	18:47	1h 3m	18:26
Thu 17	17:41	18:44	1h 3m	18:24
Fri 18	17:38	18:42	1h 3m	18:22
Sat 19	17:36	18:40	1h 3m	18:20
Sun 20	17:34	18:38	1h 3m	18:17
Mon 21	17:31	18:35	1h 3m	18:15
Tue 22	17:29	18:33	1h 3m	18:13
Wed 23	17:27	18:31	1h 3m	18:10
Thu 24	17:24	18:28	1h 3m	18:08
Fri 25	17:22	18:26	1h 3m	18:06
Sat 26	17:20	18:24	1h 3m	18:04
Sun 27	17:18	18:22	1h 4m	18:01
Mon 28	17:15	18:19	1h 4m	17:59
Tue 29	17:13	18:17	1h 4m	17:57
Wed 30	17:11	18:15	1h 4m	17:55

How much golden light each month gives you

Total evening golden-hour minutes available in each month. December is the strongest, at about 44 hours across the month; the year ranges by 24%.

What the numbers mean for Astana

Through September the evening window averages about 64 minutes a day here.

December is the most generous month at roughly 84 minutes an evening, and September the tightest at about 64 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 5 minutes longer than tonight, and it will start at 16:11.

The light comes from west tonight, at 269° 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 3m 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 Astana Twilight, solar noon, moon phases, the monthly calendar and the year in one chart.