What time is it in Fort Pierce, Florida?
8:54:26 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
- 50,805
Daylight saving in Fort Pierce
Fort Pierce 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 Pierce sits at 27.43°N, 80.34°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Fort Pierce.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Fort Pierce it is highest at 1:12 pm today — 72 minutes after clock noon.
At 80.3°W, Fort Pierce 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 Pierce today
- Sunrise
- 7:11 am
- Sunset
- 7:14 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 52 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 3 minutes in Fort Pierce, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 28 minutes, from 13 hours 52 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 24 minutes in December.
At 27.4°N that puts Fort Pierce between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.