Local time · Gainesville
What time is it in Gainesville, Florida?
4:48:58AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 148,720
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Gainesville
Gainesville is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 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.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Gainesville it is highest at 12:13 pm today — 13 minutes after clock noon.
At 82.3°W, Gainesville sits 29 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 29 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Gainesville today
- Sunrise
- 6:52 am
- Sunset
- 5:34 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 42 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 3 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 42 minutes in Gainesville, and the day is getting shorter by 1 minute 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.