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Paris, the Seine quays for couples: sunset and golden hour by date
Pick your date: the sunset, the golden hour, the blue hour and your hour at Paris, the Seine quays, 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.
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free, before you go
On the lower quays of the Seine, the tower sparkles for five minutes on the hour, and you learn how short five minutes is.
In the reel: A couple dances on a cobbled Seine quay beside a glowing lamppost at night, with a stone arched bridge, Haussmann buildings and the sparkling Eiffel Tower beyond.
No single spot holds every element, so the frame splits across two real places: the left-bank lower quay at Pont Alexandre III, looking west past the arches of Pont des Invalides to the tower, and the cobbled tip of Square du Vert-Galant below Pont Neuf. Both are free, walkable stretches of the car-free Parc Rives de Seine, and you can stand right in them.
When to go
October to December, the weekend nearest a new moon; in 2026, October 10 is a Saturday new moon and the trees still have leaves.
The hour: The first full sparkle after blue hour. On 10 Oct 2026 the sun sets at 19:11 and blue hour ends at 19:42 (our own calculation), so the 20:00 sparkle is the first in full dark. The tower sparkles for five minutes on the hour; the gold lights go off at 23:45, so 23:00 is the last full sparkle.
Avoid: June, when it barely gets dark before the last sparkle: on 21 June the sun sets at 21:58 and blue hour runs to 22:40 (our own calculation), which leaves you the 23:00 sparkle and nothing else.
Paris, month by month
The 15th of each month, local time.
| date | sunrise | golden hour | sunset | blue hour ends |
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| Oct 2026 | 08:10 | 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 | 17:10 | 18:10 | 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 | 20:55 | 21:55 | 22:38 |
| Jul 2027 | 06:02 | 20:49 | 21:49 | 22:30 |
| Aug 2027 | 06:42 | 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.