Overview
Golden hour and blue hour windows for New York City, United States: returns the morning and evening golden-hour and blue-hour start and end times for New York City (40.71°N, 74.01°W) on a requested date (default: today in New York City), for photography and scenic planning. Use it to plan a photo shoot or a golden-hour walk in New York City. 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": "United States",
"countryCode": "US",
"dataSource": {
"license": "CC BY 4.0",
"name": "GeoNames geographical database (cities15000)",
"url": "https://www.geonames.org",
"via": "GeoNames"
},
"name": "New York City",
"population": 8804190,
"slug": "new-york-city",
"timezone": "America/New_York"
},
"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": "2026-11-10T22:13:25.910Z",
"start": "2026-11-10T21:44:26.569Z"
},
"eveningGoldenHour": {
"end": "2026-11-10T21:44:26.569Z",
"start": "2026-11-10T21:04:29.661Z"
},
"latitude": 40.71427,
"longitude": -74.00597,
"morningBlueHour": {
"end": "2026-11-10T11:38:08.913Z",
"start": "2026-11-10T11:09:09.572Z"
},
"morningGoldenHour": {
"end": "2026-11-10T12:18:05.820Z",
"start": "2026-11-10T11:38:08.913Z"
},
"source": {
"name": "Computed locally from astronomical algorithms (SunCalc method)",
"url": null,
"via": "No external data source"
}
},
"type": "json"
}