What time is it in Fort Myers, Florida?
8:55:27 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
- 99,918
Daylight saving in Fort Myers
Fort Myers is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Fort Myers sits at 26.62°N, 81.83°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Fort Myers.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Fort Myers it is highest at 1:18 pm today — 78 minutes after clock noon.
At 81.8°W, Fort Myers 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 Fort Myers today
- Sunrise
- 7:17 am
- Sunset
- 7:20 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 49 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 3 minutes in Fort Myers, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes 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 Fort Myers between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.