For a July 7:00 PM show at Wine Country Amphitheater, the sun sits 15° up in the west at the start, so shade means getting under the grandstand roof or the deck above you. Sunset is 8:40 PM local, so an evening show gets real shade as the sun drops. By 7:05 PM the sun is only 14° up in the west, 96 minutes from setting.
Check the sun for YOUR show →We haven't verified which way Wine Country Amphitheater faces yet, so we won't pretend to name the shady sections. A seating map pointed the wrong way is worse than no map. What's above is real: the sun's exact position for this park's coordinates and timezone. On the interactive page you get the live sun compass, sunset against your game's real start time, and the hour-by-hour forecast.
Sun & sunset check for Wine Country Amphitheater · Satellite shadow view
We will be straight with you: we have not verified how Wine Country Amphitheater is oriented, so this is not a section-by-section breakdown. It is the next best thing, a read on the sun over Walla Walla, which is the same for any open-air venue in town.
Through the afternoon the sun moves from south to southwest to west and sinks as it travels. By 7:00 PM in high summer it is only about 14 degrees above the horizon in the west-northwest, and it holds on until sunset at 8:40 PM. Eastern Washington evenings stay bright and warm well into a show, so the opening hour of an early start is the sunniest and hottest stretch. Everything after eases as the sun goes down.
This is an open-roof amphitheater, so any lawn area is open sky with no overhead shade. Whatever covered or reserved seating exists will shade sooner than the lawn, and once the sun is below the horizon the difference disappears.
Because we have not mapped this venue's grounds, the tool that still works is the satellite shadow view, which renders true shadows anywhere you drop it. Place it on the amphitheater for your date and time and see where the shade falls.
Upcoming events at Wine Country Amphitheater are ticketed on TixBit.