Local time · Waterbury
What time is it in Waterbury, Connecticut?
4:50:55AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 115,908
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Waterbury
Waterbury is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Waterbury sits at 41.56°N, 73.04°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Waterbury.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Waterbury it is highest at 11:36 am today — 24 minutes before clock noon.
At 73.0°W, Waterbury 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 Waterbury today
- Sunrise
- 6:38 am
- Sunset
- 4:33 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 55 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 11 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 55 minutes in Waterbury, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 2 minutes, from 15 hours 11 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 10 minutes in December.
At 41.6°N that puts Waterbury between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.