What time is it in Key West, Florida?
8:04:02 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
- 25,240
Daylight saving in Key West
Key West is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Key West sits at 24.57°N, 81.78°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Key West.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Key West it is highest at 1:18 pm today — 78 minutes after clock noon.
At 81.8°W, Key West 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 Key West today
- Sunrise
- 7:16 am
- Sunset
- 7:20 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 40 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 3 minutes in Key West, and the day is getting shorter by 1 minute a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 3 minutes, from 13 hours 40 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 37 minutes in December.
At 24.6°N that puts Key West among the least seasonal places in the country, where the year barely opens and closes at all.