Local time · Homestead
What time is it in Homestead, Florida?
4:49:33AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 85,796
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Homestead
Homestead is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Homestead sits at 25.47°N, 80.45°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Homestead.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Homestead it is highest at 12:06 pm today — 6 minutes after clock noon.
At 80.4°W, Homestead sits 22 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 22 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Homestead today
- Sunrise
- 6:37 am
- Sunset
- 5:34 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 56 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 44 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 56 minutes in Homestead, and the day is getting shorter by 1 minute a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 11 minutes, from 13 hours 44 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 33 minutes in December.
At 25.5°N that puts Homestead among the least seasonal places in the country, where the year barely opens and closes at all.