Big Sur, California, USA

Monday, January 15, 2024

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Big Sur, California, USA

That morning

Sunrise

7:17 AM

7:17 AM

Clears the mountains at 8:03 AM, 46 min after sunrise

6:49 AM Blue hour
7:17 AM Sunrise
7:56 AM Golden hour ends

Sunset

5:15 PM

5:15 PM

Behind the mountains at 3:46 PM, 89 min before sunset

Too far ahead for a weather forecast. These are the sun's own times - they will not change.

4:36 PM Golden hour, best color
5:15 PM Sunset
5:43 PM Blue hour ends

Best color is when the sky has actually looked its best, learned from 52 camera photos of past sunsets here.

Event

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

US holiday

Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Big Sur - sunset at 5:15 PM

Evening from 5:15 PM

Sunset and evening sky: not known yet

Sunset
5:15 PM
Sun toward WSW
Cloud this evening
Not known yet
Rain chance
Not known yet
This evening
Moon
27% lit
Up from the start
Where the Sun is
WSW, 5° up
at 4:45 PM

Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the third Monday of January, falls near his birthday, January 15, 1929. The Baptist minister led the civil rights movement with nonviolent protest - the Montgomery bus boycott, the March on Washington, where he gave his "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963 - and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. He was killed in Memphis in 1968.

It became a federal holiday in 1983, first kept in 1986, and is also kept as a national day of service.

Moon

Waxing crescent

25% lit

10:22 AM – 10:28 PM

E W
10:22 AM Moonrise
10:42 AM 4°
4:24 PM Highest, 51°
10:08 PM 4°
10:28 PM Moonset

Between the two 4° marks the Moon is clear of haze and most of what stands on the horizon.

Timetable

  • Morning blue hour 6:49 AM–7:17 AM
  • Sunrise 7:17 AM
  • Morning golden hour 7:17 AM–7:56 AM
  • Morning best color 7:18 AM
  • Moonrise 10:23 AM
  • Evening golden hour 4:36 PM–5:15 PM
  • Sunset 5:15 PM
  • Evening blue hour 5:15 PM–5:43 PM
  • Fully dark 6:45 PM–5:47 AM
  • Moonset 10:29 PM
  • Dark, no Moon 10:35 PM–5:47 AM

Upcoming celestial events for Big Sur, California, USA

Northern Taurids Still active, a few an hour
Thu 12 Nov 2026 6:31 PM Southern Taurids Still active, a few an hour
Thu 12 Nov 2026 6:31 PM International Space Station Modest pass, WNW to NNW, 16 deg up
Fri 13 Nov 2026 6:52 PM Leonids Around 11 an hour
Mon 16 Nov 2026 6:28 PM Falcon 9 Block 5 | USSF-317 Marginal, look SSE
Tue 17 Nov 2026 7:14 PM Falcon 9 Block 5 | USSF-266 Long shot, look SSE
Wed 18 Nov 2026 8:49 AM Partial lunar eclipse 6% of the Moon in shadow
Tue 11 Jan 2028 8:13 PM Partial solar eclipse 54.1% of the Sun covered
Sun 14 Jan 2029 8:21 AM Total lunar eclipse 48% of it above your horizon
Mon 25 Jun 2029 8:22 PM Partial solar eclipse 0.9% of the Sun covered
Fri 14 Nov 2031 1:27 PM Partial solar eclipse 34.5% of the Sun covered
Wed 30 Mar 2033 10:20 AM Total lunar eclipse Totality lasts 78 minutes
Fri 7 Oct 2033 3:55 AM Partial solar eclipse 3.5% of the Sun covered
Sun 2 Sep 2035 7:33 PM Total lunar eclipse 45% of it above your horizon
Wed 6 Aug 2036 7:51 PM Partial solar eclipse 7.2% of the Sun covered
Thu 9 Apr 2043 11:41 AM Partial solar eclipse 81.6% of the Sun covered
Tue 23 Aug 2044 7:05 PM Partial solar eclipse 88.4% of the Sun covered
Sat 12 Aug 2045 9:17 AM

Every celestial event, and where else to see it