What time is it in Cocoa, Florida?
8:03:46 AM
Friday, September 25, 2026. Eastern Daylight Time, UTC−4:00.
- Time zone
- Eastern Daylight Time
- UTC offset
- UTC−4:00
- Daylight saving
- In force now
- Population
- 19,909
Daylight saving in Cocoa
Cocoa is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Cocoa sits at 28.38°N, 80.76°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Cocoa.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Cocoa it is highest at 1:14 pm today — 74 minutes after clock noon.
At 80.8°W, Cocoa sits well toward the western edge of its zone, which is why the sun stays up later here than the clock suggests. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.
Daylight in Cocoa today
- Sunrise
- 7:13 am
- Sunset
- 7:16 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 57 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 3 minutes in Cocoa, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 37 minutes, from 13 hours 57 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 20 minutes in December.
At 28.4°N that puts Cocoa between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.