Cape Cod Sunsets

A living atlas of golden hour on Cape
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Cape Cod Sunsets

A living atlas of
golden hour on Cape

Every dot on the map is a real sunset — photographed and submitted by someone standing on Cape Cod. No accounts, no filters, no algorithms. Just sunsets, placed where they happened. Locations are fuzzed before being stored — rounded to ~100 meters — and pins are sized to cover roughly a quarter mile at full zoom, so the dot itself obscures exactly where you were standing. EXIF data (device info, timestamps, embedded GPS) is stripped from every photo before it's stored.

What you can do

Features

Interactive map
Every approved sunset is plotted as a pin. Click any pin to see the photo and exactly where it was taken.
Filter by time
Narrow the map to today, the last 7 days, 30 days, or past year to see what's been happening recently.
Share a sunset
Each photo has its own shareable link with a full preview, so you can send any sunset directly to someone.
Recent feed
The sidebar shows the latest submissions in order, with thumbnails and timestamps, so you can follow along.
Submit a sunset
If you're on Cape Cod at golden hour, open the site on your phone and add your sunset to the map.
Stats
See how many sunsets are on the map, how many this week and month, and a breakdown by month over time.

Contributing

How to submit

  1. 1
    Be on Cape Cod at sunset
    You must be physically on the Cape and within one hour of local sunset time. The site enforces both — location and timing are verified automatically.
  2. 2
    Open the site on your phone
    Submissions are mobile-only so your GPS location can be attached to the photo. On a phone, the wordmark becomes a submit button during the sunset window.
  3. 3
    Take the photo and submit
    Use your camera in the moment. Add an optional caption — a town, a beach, whatever feels right — and hit submit.
  4. 4
    It appears on the map
    Your photo is sent for manual review. Once approved, your sunset appears on the map.

Guidelines

Requirements & restrictions

Required

  • Must be physically located on Cape Cod
  • Must be within 1 hour of local sunset time
  • Must use a mobile device
  • The sky must be the clear subject — sunset colors, the horizon, golden light
  • Taken with your camera in the moment — not from your photo library

Not allowed

  • People, faces, or identifiable individuals in the frame
  • Submissions from outside Cape Cod
  • Photos taken outside the sunset window
  • Photos uploaded from your camera roll
  • More than 3 submissions per hour
  • Non-landscape content — indoor shots, selfies, objects