Local time · Phenix City
What time is it in Phenix City, Alabama?
4:50:34AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 38,509
- City proper
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About this clock
Phenix City does not keep Alabama's usual time
Most of Alabama is on Central Standard Time, but Phenix City keeps Eastern Standard Time — 1 hour ahead of the rest of the state. This is the kind of thing that catches people out, and it is why the zone is resolved from the city’s own coordinates rather than assumed from the state.
Phenix City is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Phenix City sits at 32.45°N, 85.03°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Phenix City.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Phenix City it is highest at 12:24 pm today — 24 minutes after clock noon.
At 85.0°W, Phenix City sits 40 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 40 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Phenix City today
- Sunrise
- 7:08 am
- Sunset
- 5:40 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 33 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 17 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 33 minutes in Phenix City, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 16 minutes, from 14 hours 17 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 1 minute in December.
At 32.5°N that puts Phenix City between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.