Local time · New Haven
What time is it in New Haven, Connecticut?
4:50:17AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 137,562
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in New Haven
New Haven is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
New Haven sits at 41.31°N, 72.92°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in New Haven.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over New Haven it is highest at 11:35 am today — 25 minutes before clock noon.
At 72.9°W, New Haven sits 8 minutes of solar time east of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 8 minutes before noon.
Daylight in New Haven today
- Sunrise
- 6:37 am
- Sunset
- 4:34 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 56 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 10 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 56 minutes in New Haven, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 58 minutes, from 15 hours 10 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 11 minutes in December.
At 41.3°N that puts New Haven between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.