What time is it in Gainesville, Florida?

Gainesville is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.

Gainesville sits at 29.68°N, 82.35°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Gainesville.

The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Gainesville it is highest at 1:20 pm today — 80 minutes after clock noon.

At 82.3°W, Gainesville 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.

Today runs 12 hours 3 minutes in Gainesville, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 49 minutes, from 14 hours 3 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 14 minutes in December.

At 29.7°N that puts Gainesville between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.