Local time · Hartford
What time is it in Hartford, Connecticut?
4:50:48AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 122,129
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Hartford
Hartford is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Hartford sits at 41.77°N, 72.68°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Hartford.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Hartford it is highest at 11:34 am today — 26 minutes before clock noon.
At 72.7°W, Hartford sits 9 minutes of solar time east of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 9 minutes before noon.
Daylight in Hartford today
- Sunrise
- 6:37 am
- Sunset
- 4:32 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 54 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 13 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 54 minutes in Hartford, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 5 minutes, from 15 hours 13 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 8 minutes in December.
At 41.8°N that puts Hartford between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.