Sunset times in Portugal, month by month
Most of our ceremonies are timed backwards from the sunset. We want the portraits to happen in the last half hour of light, after the ceremony, the drinks and the family photographs.
The rule we use
Ceremony three and a half hours before sunset, portraits half an hour before it, dinner twenty minutes after. In June in Lisbon that means a ceremony at half past five; in October, at half past three.
By region
The Douro loses the light earlier than the coast because of the hills. The Alentejo keeps it longest. Comporta has the best of it, straight over the sea.
Ask us for the times for your date; we have a sheet for every Saturday of the year.
What we do in the last eight weeks
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