Local time · Boca Raton
What time is it in Boca Raton, Florida?
4:49:35AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 102,238
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Boca Raton
Boca Raton is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Boca Raton sits at 26.37°N, 80.10°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Boca Raton.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Boca Raton it is highest at 12:04 pm today — 4 minutes after clock noon.
At 80.1°W, Boca Raton sits 20 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 20 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Boca Raton today
- Sunrise
- 6:38 am
- Sunset
- 5:31 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 53 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 48 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 53 minutes in Boca Raton, and the day is getting shorter by 1 minute a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 19 minutes, from 13 hours 48 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 29 minutes in December.
At 26.4°N that puts Boca Raton between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.