Big Sur, California, USA

Thursday, November 25, 2027

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Big Sur, California, USA

Event

Thanksgiving

US holiday

Thanksgiving in Big Sur - sunset at 4:54 PM

Evening from 4:54 PM

Sunset and evening sky: not known yet

Sunset
4:54 PM
Sun toward WSW
Cloud this evening
Not known yet
Rain chance
Not known yet
This evening
Moon
5% lit
Rises 5:44 AM (after midnight)
Where the Sun is
WSW, 5° up
at 4:24 PM

Thanksgiving, the fourth Thursday of November, is a day of giving thanks for the harvest and the year, kept with a family meal - turkey, stuffing, cranberries and pumpkin pie. It recalls the harvest feast the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony shared with the Wampanoag in 1621.

Abraham Lincoln made it a national holiday in 1863, and since 1941 it has been the fourth Thursday.

That morning

Sunrise

6:54 AM

6:54 AM

6:26 AM Blue hour
6:54 AM Sunrise
7:32 AM Golden hour ends

Sunset

4:54 PM

4:54 PM

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

4:15 PM Golden hour
4:54 PM Sunset
5:21 PM Blue hour ends

Meteor shower

Northern Taurids

Best around 11:39 PM

Very LowExcellent
6:24 PM Dark enough
11:39 PM Best
5:25 AM Too light
Estimate
A few/hour
from a dark spot here, off its peak night
Radiant climbs to
76°
Under a perfect sky
5/hour
Moonlight
No interference
Speed
29 km/s

The estimate is how many you might really see from a dark spot here, allowing for how high the shower climbs and for moonlight. "Under a perfect sky" is the best case. The bar also counts the forecast cloud at the best time, so a clouded-out night sits at the bottom, as does rain on the radar now.

The second half of the Taurids, peaking about a week after the Southern Taurids.

Moon

Waning crescent

6% lit

4:28 AM – 3:01 PM

ESE WSW
4:28 AM Moonrise
4:49 AM 4°
9:45 AM Highest, 36°
2:39 PM 4°
3:01 PM Moonset

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

Timetable

  • Moonrise 4:28 AM
  • Morning blue hour 6:26 AM–6:54 AM
  • Morning best color 6:51 AM
  • Sunrise 6:54 AM
  • Morning golden hour 6:54 AM–7:32 AM
  • Moonset 3:01 PM
  • Evening golden hour 4:15 PM–4:54 PM
  • Sunset 4:54 PM
  • Evening blue hour 4:54 PM–5:21 PM
  • Fully dark 6:24 PM–5:24 AM
  • Dark, no Moon 6:24 PM–5:24 AM

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