What time is it in Daytona Beach, Florida?
8:54:52 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
- 86,015
Daylight saving in Daytona Beach
Daytona Beach is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Daytona Beach sits at 29.19°N, 81.10°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Daytona Beach.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Daytona Beach it is highest at 1:15 pm today — 75 minutes after clock noon.
At 81.1°W, Daytona Beach 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 Daytona Beach today
- Sunrise
- 7:14 am
- Sunset
- 7:17 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 1 minute
Today runs 12 hours 3 minutes in Daytona Beach, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 44 minutes, from 14 hours 1 minute at the June solstice down to 10 hours 16 minutes in December.
At 29.2°N that puts Daytona Beach between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.