Local time · Cape Coral
What time is it in Cape Coral, Florida?
4:50:23AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 233,025
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Cape Coral
Cape Coral is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Cape Coral sits at 26.64°N, 82.00°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Cape Coral.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Cape Coral it is highest at 12:12 pm today — 12 minutes after clock noon.
At 82.0°W, Cape Coral sits 28 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 28 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Cape Coral today
- Sunrise
- 6:46 am
- Sunset
- 5:38 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 52 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 49 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 52 minutes in Cape Coral, and the day is getting shorter by 1 minute a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 21 minutes, from 13 hours 49 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 28 minutes in December.
At 26.6°N that puts Cape Coral between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.