What time is it in New Haven, Connecticut?
8:54:53 AM
Friday, September 25, 2026. Eastern Daylight Time, UTC−4:00.
- Time zone
- Eastern Daylight Time
- UTC offset
- UTC−4:00
- Daylight saving
- In force now
- Population
- 137,562
Daylight saving in New Haven
New Haven is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 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 Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over New Haven it is highest at 12:43 pm today — 43 minutes after clock noon.
At 72.9°W, New Haven sits comfortably inside its zone. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.
Daylight in New Haven today
- Sunrise
- 6:42 am
- Sunset
- 6:44 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 10 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in New Haven, and the day is getting shorter by 3 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.