Local time · Dover
What time is it in Dover, Delaware?
4:47:04AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 40,191
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Dover
Dover is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Dover sits at 39.16°N, 75.52°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Dover.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Dover it is highest at 11:46 am today — 14 minutes before clock noon.
At 75.5°W, Dover 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 Dover today
- Sunrise
- 6:43 am
- Sunset
- 4:49 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 6 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 55 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 6 minutes in Dover, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 31 minutes, from 14 hours 55 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 25 minutes in December.
At 39.2°N that puts Dover between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.