Overview
Golden hour and blue hour windows for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: returns the morning and evening golden-hour and blue-hour start and end times for Rio de Janeiro (22.91°S, 43.18°W) on a requested date (default: today in Rio de Janeiro), for photography and scenic planning. Use it to plan a photo shoot or a golden-hour walk in Rio de Janeiro. Computed locally from astronomical algorithms; no external data.
Protocol
x402
Price
$0.0050
Payment Asset
USD Coin
Payment Network
eip155:8453
Category
media/images
Provider
cities-factory-live
Indexed
2026-11-13 12:08:23
Health
Status
unknown
Latency (p50)
—
Uptime (30d)
—
Reliability Score
—
Last Checked
Never
Last Healthy
Never
Consecutive Failures
0
Output Schema
{
"example": {
"city": {
"country": "Brazil",
"countryCode": "BR",
"dataSource": {
"license": "CC BY 4.0",
"name": "GeoNames geographical database (cities15000)",
"url": "https://www.geonames.org",
"via": "GeoNames"
},
"name": "Rio de Janeiro",
"population": 6747815,
"slug": "rio-de-janeiro",
"timezone": "America/Sao_Paulo"
},
"date": "2026-11-10",
"disclaimer": "Golden hour is the period while the sun is between the horizon and 6 degrees above it; blue hour is civil twilight, between the sun at -6 degrees and the horizon. Computed times are astronomical predictions for the given coordinates; local horizon and weather can shift what is actually visible.",
"eveningBlueHour": {
"end": "2026-11-10T21:35:39.354Z",
"start": "2026-11-10T21:11:44.534Z"
},
"eveningGoldenHour": {
"end": "2026-11-10T21:11:44.534Z",
"start": "2026-11-10T20:40:37.285Z"
},
"latitude": -22.90642,
"longitude": -43.18223,
"morningBlueHour": {
"end": "2026-11-10T08:04:14.401Z",
"start": "2026-11-10T07:40:19.581Z"
},
"morningGoldenHour": {
"end": "2026-11-10T08:35:21.650Z",
"start": "2026-11-10T08:04:14.401Z"
},
"source": {
"name": "Computed locally from astronomical algorithms (SunCalc method)",
"url": null,
"via": "No external data source"
}
},
"type": "json"
}