Local time in the United States
United States of America
Current local time in the United States — this country spans 29 time zones. The clocks below update live in your browser.
The United States spans 29 IANA time zones in total; the 6 principal zones (one per UTC offset) are shown above.
Time difference — Washington D.C.
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Differences are relative to Washington D.C., the United States, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for the United States
- Standard label
- UTC-5 to UTC-10
- Standard offset (Washington D.C.)
- UTC−5
- Daylight saving time
- Observed
- Number of time zones
- 29
- Capital
- Washington D.C.
- IANA zones
- America/Adak, America/Anchorage, America/Boise, America/Chicago, America/Denver, America/Detroit, America/Indiana/Indianapolis, America/Indiana/Knox +21 more
The United States uses UTC-5 to UTC-10 as its standard time across 29 IANA zones. Clocks move forward in summer for daylight saving time, so the local offset alternates seasonally around the UTC−5 standard. Times on this page are computed in your browser from the IANA time zone database, so they always match the real current time in the United States.
Sunrise and sunset in Washington D.C.
At 38.9° north, Washington D.C. gets 14 h 54 min of daylight around the June solstice but only 9 h 26 min around the December solstice — a difference of 5 h 28 min.
| Date | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 January | 07:23 | 12:20 | 17:17 | 9 h 54 min |
| 21 February | 06:53 | 12:23 | 17:53 | 11 h 00 min |
| 21 March | 07:11 | 13:16 | 19:21 | 12 h 10 min |
| 21 April | 06:24 | 13:07 | 19:51 | 13 h 27 min |
| 21 May | 05:52 | 13:06 | 20:20 | 14 h 28 min |
| 21 June | 05:44 | 13:11 | 20:38 | 14 h 54 min |
| 21 July | 06:00 | 13:15 | 20:30 | 14 h 30 min |
| 21 August | 06:28 | 13:12 | 19:57 | 13 h 29 min |
| 21 September | 06:56 | 13:02 | 19:09 | 12 h 13 min |
| 21 October | 07:24 | 12:53 | 18:23 | 10 h 59 min |
| 21 November | 06:58 | 11:55 | 16:52 | 9 h 53 min |
| 21 December | 07:24 | 12:07 | 16:50 | 9 h 26 min |
Calculated for Washington D.C. (38.90°, -77.04°; coordinates from Wikidata) with the standard solar-position formulas used by NOAA, for a sea-level horizon. Results are accurate to about a minute; hills, buildings and altitude shift what you actually see. Times change by only a minute or two from year to year.
Daylight saving time in the United States (America/New_York)
Clocks in Washington D.C. change twice a year. Clock changes in 2026 and 2027, in local time:
- ForwardSunday 8 March 2026
Clocks go forward 1 hour: 02:00 becomes 03:00 (UTC−5 → UTC−4) - BackSunday 1 November 2026
Clocks go back 1 hour: 02:00 becomes 01:00 (UTC−4 → UTC−5) - ForwardSunday 14 March 2027
Clocks go forward 1 hour: 02:00 becomes 03:00 (UTC−5 → UTC−4) - BackSunday 7 November 2027
Clocks go back 1 hour: 02:00 becomes 01:00 (UTC−4 → UTC−5)
Dates come from the IANA time zone database as bundled at build time. Governments occasionally change their rules at short notice.