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Any date since 1940

The sky on the day that mattered.

A wedding, a birth, the evening somebody left. Name the place and the date and Window Seat paints that sunset from the cloud that was actually recorded over it, from a weather archive that reaches back to January 1940. Nobody had to have been filming.

Computed for everybody, every visit

The evening Apollo 11 left, over Cape Canaveral

Cape Canaveral

Sunset, 16 July 1969

61Good

Mid cloud at 22 per cent will take colour.

Ember

Signal Red

Crimson

Oxblood

Midnight

Cloud at three heights comes from the ERA5 reanalysis through Open-Meteo, hour by hour. The archive does not record visibility, so typical clear air stands in for it. There is no photograph of most of these evenings, and nothing here pretends to be one.