Local time · Stamford
What time is it in Stamford, Connecticut?
4:50:28AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 139,134
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Stamford
Stamford is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Stamford sits at 41.08°N, 73.55°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Stamford.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Stamford it is highest at 11:38 am today — 22 minutes before clock noon.
At 73.5°W, Stamford 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 Stamford today
- Sunrise
- 6:39 am
- Sunset
- 4:37 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 57 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 8 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 57 minutes in Stamford, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 55 minutes, from 15 hours 8 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 13 minutes in December.
At 41.1°N that puts Stamford between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.