What time is it in Golden Gate, Florida?
8:54:00 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
- 25,321
Daylight saving in Golden Gate
Golden Gate is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Golden Gate sits at 26.18°N, 81.70°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Golden Gate.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Golden Gate it is highest at 1:18 pm today — 78 minutes after clock noon.
At 81.7°W, Golden Gate 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 Golden Gate today
- Sunrise
- 7:16 am
- Sunset
- 7:20 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 47 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 3 minutes in Golden Gate, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 17 minutes, from 13 hours 47 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 30 minutes in December.
At 26.2°N that puts Golden Gate between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.