Overview
Golden hour and blue hour windows for Johannesburg, South Africa: returns the morning and evening golden-hour and blue-hour start and end times for Johannesburg (26.20°S, 28.04°E) on a requested date (default: today in Johannesburg), for photography and scenic planning. Use it to plan a photo shoot or a golden-hour walk in Johannesburg. 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 12:08:25
Health
Status
unknown
Latency (p50)
—
Uptime (30d)
—
Reliability Score
—
Last Checked
Never
Last Healthy
Never
Consecutive Failures
0
Output Schema
{
"example": {
"city": {
"country": "South Africa",
"countryCode": "ZA",
"dataSource": {
"license": "CC BY 4.0",
"name": "GeoNames geographical database (cities15000)",
"url": "https://www.geonames.org",
"via": "GeoNames"
},
"name": "Johannesburg",
"population": 9418183,
"slug": "johannesburg",
"timezone": "Africa/Johannesburg"
},
"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": "2026-11-10T16:56:26.294Z",
"start": "2026-11-10T16:31:46.293Z"
},
"eveningGoldenHour": {
"end": "2026-11-10T16:31:46.293Z",
"start": "2026-11-10T15:59:46.412Z"
},
"latitude": -26.20227,
"longitude": 28.04363,
"morningBlueHour": {
"end": "2026-11-10T03:14:21.616Z",
"start": "2026-11-10T02:49:41.615Z"
},
"morningGoldenHour": {
"end": "2026-11-10T03:46:21.497Z",
"start": "2026-11-10T03:14:21.616Z"
},
"source": {
"name": "Computed locally from astronomical algorithms (SunCalc method)",
"url": null,
"via": "No external data source"
}
},
"type": "json"
}