Saturday, November 29, 2025

Best moment at 4:13 PM EST over Lake Champlain — 5 captures this evening

Quality 62/100Clouds

What the AI saw

The left image clearly shows the sun sitting at the horizon with strong warm light spilling across the sky and water. Thin, layered cloud bands create dramatic horizontal stripes and a rich golden-to-amber gradient near the horizon, while the foreground and mountain ridge are in deep silhouette. The scene has good atmospheric clarity and pleasing reflections on the lake, giving it a classic, visually satisfying sunset look. Colors are not neon-vivid but are warm and well-structured, with interesting cloud texture adding visual interest.

Conditions

Temperature: 32°F
Cloud cover: 95%
Humidity: 63%
Wind: 6 mph

overcast clouds

Sun position

Sun set toward

244° WSW

Far southwest - Winter sunset

Burlington (44.48°N) — sunsets sweep from southwest in winter to northwest in summer along the Lake Champlain shore.

Both camera angles at 4:13 PM EST

Left view, Burlington sunset on Saturday, November 29, 2025 — Left viewThe left image clearly shows the sun sitting at the horizon with strong warm light spilling across the sky and water. Thin, layered cloud bands create dramatic horizontal stripes and a rich golden-to-amber gradient near the horizon, while the foreground and mountain ridge are in deep silhouette. The scene has good atmospheric clarity and pleasing reflections on the lake, giving it a classic, visually satisfying sunset look. Colors are not neon-vivid but are warm and well-structured, with interesting cloud texture adding visual interest.

Right view, Burlington sunset on Saturday, November 29, 2025 — Right viewThe right image reads as post-sunset twilight: the sun has set and the sky shows soft pastel bands of blue, pale orange and faint pink near the horizon. Cloud streaks and the silhouetted town and distant ridgeline provide nice compositional layers, but the color intensity is gentle and subdued rather than dramatic. The scene has a calm, serene twilight quality with subtle gradients rather than bold, saturated hues.

How the evening unfolded

Burlington sunset on Saturday, November 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM EST — 3:18 PM ESTQuality 52/100

Burlington sunset on Saturday, November 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM EST — 3:28 PM ESTQuality 48/100

Burlington sunset on Saturday, November 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM EST — 3:43 PM ESTQuality 38/100

Burlington sunset on Saturday, November 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM EST — 3:58 PM ESTQuality 48/100