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Paris for couples: sunset and golden hour by date
Pick your date: the sunset, the golden hour, the blue hour and your hour at Paris, in local time.
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Times are Paris local time (Europe/Paris), worked out from the sun’s position for this place (the NOAA method), good to about a minute on a flat horizon. Golden hour is the last hour before sunset; blue hour runs from sunset to the end of civil twilight.
the exact stay, spot and hour: the plan
$9- 4 stays
- 4 shots at the hour
- 2 days
- 3 tables
free, before you go
A plain Paris street corner, a paper bag of bread and cheese, and a gold tower that goes off like a match at the top of the hour.
In the reel: A couple on a chimney-pot rooftop at night, wine and a lantern, the Eiffel Tower lit gold across the slate roofs.
This is the view from the roofs of the 7th, 15th and 16th arrondissements; the reel's own corner is Rue de l'Université at Rue Saint-Dominique, in the 7th. You can actually sit in this frame: a handful of hotels have Eiffel-facing rooftop terraces, and two public rooftops give you the exact angle for the price of a drink.
When to go
Late September–October and April–May. Soft light, fewer crowds, terraces still open.
The hour: Blue hour, 25 minutes after sunset: sunset at the corner is 19:29 on 1 October, 18:55 on 18 October, 20:42 in mid-April and 21:25 in mid-May (our own calculation). The tower sparkles for 5 minutes on the hour after dark; the last sparkle is at 23:00 and the lighting goes off at 23:45 (toureiffel.paris, read Oct 2026).
Avoid: July–August for heat and rooftop queues; January for closed terraces.
Paris, month by month
The 15th of each month, local time.
| date | sunrise | golden hour | sunset | blue hour ends |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2026 | 08:11 | 18:01 | 19:01 | 19:33 |
| Nov 2026 | 07:59 | 16:10 | 17:10 | 17:45 |
| Dec 2026 | 08:37 | 15:54 | 16:54 | 17:31 |
| Jan 2027 | 08:39 | 16:21 | 17:21 | 17:57 |
| Feb 2027 | 07:59 | 17:11 | 18:11 | 18:43 |
| Mar 2027 | 07:04 | 17:55 | 18:55 | 19:26 |
| Apr 2027 | 07:00 | 19:42 | 20:42 | 21:15 |
| May 2027 | 06:09 | 20:25 | 21:25 | 22:03 |
| Jun 2027 | 05:46 | 20:56 | 21:56 | 22:38 |
| Jul 2027 | 06:03 | 20:49 | 21:49 | 22:30 |
| Aug 2027 | 06:43 | 20:06 | 21:06 | 21:41 |
| Sep 2027 | 07:26 | 19:04 | 20:04 | 20:36 |
the hour, every week
the weekly note: one place and its hour, one story, one tip. a tap in the first mail confirms it.