Golden Hour Scout
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Find golden hour and blue hour photography windows for any location, for the next 7 days, labeled with the forecast's own WMO sky condition codes.
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Solar day
date
Required
Local date (YYYY-MM-DD) of the solar day that produced this item — NOT a restatement of startLocal's date. Above roughly 60° latitude an evening window can end after local midnight, so endLocal may carry the next date while this does not. Read boundary dates from startLocal/endLocal, never from here.
Item type
type
Required
One of the four photography windows, or one of the two explanatory shapes emitted for a local day with zero windows.
No-window reason
reason
Optional
Present only on polar and noWindows items. "no-boundary-crossings" is an ordinary day, with a real sunrise and sunset, on which the sun still never reaches the golden/blue-hour elevation boundaries — deliberately not labelled polar, which would be factually wrong.
Start
startLocal
Optional
Window start as ISO-8601 local time with an explicit numeric UTC offset — never bare UTC, never the runner's own zone. Absent on polar and noWindows items.
End
endLocal
Optional
Window end as ISO-8601 local time with an explicit numeric UTC offset. May carry the next calendar date at high latitudes. Absent on polar and noWindows items.
Condition
condition
Optional
WMO label of the hourly sample closest to the window's midpoint, ties going to the later hour, or "n/a" if that sample carried no weather code.
WMO code
wmoCode
Optional
Raw WMO weather code backing condition, or null if the forecast reported none for that hour.
Condition sequence
conditionSequence
Optional
One condition label per hour overlapping [start, end), duplicates kept.
[ "Partly cloudy", "Partly cloudy"]Ideal sky
idealSky
Optional
True only on evidence: a dry, unobscured WMO code AND all four cloud figures inside their bands simultaneously. A figure the forecast omitted counts as unknown rather than 0%, so an incomplete forecast yields no ideal-sky windows instead of a verdict on partial data.
Cloud & precipitation
conditions
Optional
Figures from the hourly sample closest to the window's midpoint. Percent 0-100, or null where the forecast omitted that variable — which is not the same as 0.
Sun
sun
Optional
Sunrise and sunset for the item's solar day, plus the sun's bearing mid-window. Absent on polar and noWindows items.
Location
location
Required
The resolved place, repeated on every item. On the coordinates input path there is no place record, so name is the formatted lat/lon — a mistyped pair stays visible rather than being silently geocoded away.