2022
Perfect time for photography depends of many things. Obviously we should think only out door photography. In landscape photography time before and after sunrise and sunset is called golden hour. In most of areas it's almost an hour, maybe less, but here 150 km above Polar Circle situation is totally different. On winter and summer time we have at least 4 hour golden hour. On winter it's on the middle of day and on summer on middle of night. If you shoot something else than landscapes, you can practically shoot here all day long. Light is most of the year horizontal all the time. On summer there is some days, when light is too straight and strong, but normally you can shoot people and animals as long as there is light.
If you don't live at north, you should shoot on golden hour and cloudy days.
Here is midday photo on last December.
Depends on the subject.
Every photo has it's best light, it's up to you to catch it.
If we speak motionless objects, always the golden hour.
Could this photo been taken during the golden hour?
@LucioV the Golden hour is the best, that's why they named it the golden hour.
Have you ever heard anybody mention the silver hour?
There is no such thing.
As the golden hour is an hour in the north and south part of the world, it might just be a few minutes if you live close to the equator.
Here it's about 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes in the afternoon.
By default my camera jump out of it's bag during this time, I don't have to ask it twice anymore.