Local time · Fort Myers
What time is it in Fort Myers, Florida?
4:50:52AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 99,918
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Fort Myers
Fort Myers is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 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 Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Fort Myers it is highest at 12:11 pm today — 11 minutes after clock noon.
At 81.8°W, Fort Myers sits 27 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 27 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Fort Myers today
- Sunrise
- 6:45 am
- Sunset
- 5:37 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 53 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 49 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 53 minutes in Fort Myers, 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 Fort Myers between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.