Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Best moment at 5:18 PM EST over Lake Champlain — 4 captures this evening

Quality 78/100Clouds

What the AI saw

This image shows a stronger post-sunset twilight with a vivid warm orange band hugging the horizon that transitions cleanly to deep blue overhead. Sparse, small clouds pick up subtle pink tones and the silhouetted mountains and island create a pleasing layered composition; the city lights and a street leading toward the lake add foreground interest. The color gradient is clearer and more intense than the left image, producing a richer, more striking dusk atmosphere. It reads as an excellent twilight view with attractive color contrast and compositional balance.

Conditions

Temperature: 15°F
Cloud cover: 77%
Humidity: 55%
Wind: 5 mph

broken clouds

Sun position

Sun set toward

242° 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 5:18 PM EST

Left view, Burlington sunset on Tuesday, January 20, 2026 — Left viewThis is a post-sunset twilight scene with a delicate lavender-to-pale-orange gradient above the horizon and a thin crescent moon high in the sky. A low bank of darker clouds and distant mountain silhouettes add depth and drama, while the lake below catches muted reflected light. City lights in the foreground emphasize that the sun has already set but the afterglow remains. Overall the colors are soft and atmospheric rather than blazing, giving a calm, beautiful evening mood.

Right view, Burlington sunset on Tuesday, January 20, 2026 — Right viewThis image shows a stronger post-sunset twilight with a vivid warm orange band hugging the horizon that transitions cleanly to deep blue overhead. Sparse, small clouds pick up subtle pink tones and the silhouetted mountains and island create a pleasing layered composition; the city lights and a street leading toward the lake add foreground interest. The color gradient is clearer and more intense than the left image, producing a richer, more striking dusk atmosphere. It reads as an excellent twilight view with attractive color contrast and compositional balance.

How the evening unfolded

Burlington sunset on Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 4:44 PM EST — 4:44 PM ESTQuality 75/100

Burlington sunset on Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 5:14 PM EST — 5:14 PM ESTQuality 78/100

Burlington sunset on Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 5:29 PM EST — 5:29 PM ESTQuality 75/100