Local time · Middletown
What time is it in Middletown, Delaware?
4:48:56AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 25,686
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Middletown
Middletown is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Middletown sits at 39.44°N, 75.72°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Middletown.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Middletown it is highest at 11:47 am today — 13 minutes before clock noon.
At 75.7°W, Middletown 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 Middletown today
- Sunrise
- 6:44 am
- Sunset
- 4:49 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 5 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 57 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 5 minutes in Middletown, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 34 minutes, from 14 hours 57 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 23 minutes in December.
At 39.4°N that puts Middletown between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.