Local time · Bridgeport
What time is it in Bridgeport, Connecticut?
4:49:54AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 151,599
- City proper
Around the world
About this clock
Daylight saving in Bridgeport
Bridgeport is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Bridgeport sits at 41.19°N, 73.20°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Bridgeport.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Bridgeport it is highest at 11:37 am today — 23 minutes before clock noon.
At 73.2°W, Bridgeport sits almost exactly on Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the clock and the sun agree to within a few minutes.
Daylight in Bridgeport today
- Sunrise
- 6:38 am
- Sunset
- 4:35 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 57 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 9 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 57 minutes in Bridgeport, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 57 minutes, from 15 hours 9 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 12 minutes in December.
At 41.2°N that puts Bridgeport between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.