Local time · Fort Lauderdale
What time is it in Fort Lauderdale, Florida?
4:51:12AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 190,641
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Fort Lauderdale sits at 26.14°N, 80.15°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Fort Lauderdale.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Fort Lauderdale it is highest at 12:04 pm today — 4 minutes after clock noon.
At 80.1°W, Fort Lauderdale sits 21 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 21 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Fort Lauderdale today
- Sunrise
- 6:37 am
- Sunset
- 5:31 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 54 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 47 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 54 minutes in Fort Lauderdale, and the day is getting shorter by 1 minute a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 17 minutes, from 13 hours 47 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 30 minutes in December.
At 26.1°N that puts Fort Lauderdale between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.