3 perfect days in Strasbourg

Morning9:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Best light: Late afternoon from the river terrace, when the light is along the façade rather than into it

Evening8:30 PM · after dark

Best light: The hour before sunset, when the low sun turns the west front from pink to orange — it faces roughly west, so it is flat and grey all morning and lights up at the end of the day

Morning9:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Best light: Midday, when the sun is high enough to reach the bottom of boulevards this wide — the scale is the subject here and it needs light on both sides of the street

Evening8:30 PM · after dark

Best light: After dark on a weekday, when the chalets are lit and the crowd is a third of what it is at the weekend — the market is a night subject and it looks like nothing at two in the afternoon

Morning9:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Best light: Early morning, before about nine, when the canals are still and hold the reflection of the houses and there is nobody on the bridges — by eleven this is the most crowded few hundred metres in Alsace

Afternoon2:00 – 4:30 PM

Best light: Late morning on a weekday, when the cellar lights are on and the room is empty — it is underground, so the hour outside makes no difference and the opening times do