What time is it in Lake Butler, Florida?
8:05:06 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
- 18,851
Daylight saving in Lake Butler
Lake Butler is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Lake Butler sits at 28.50°N, 81.55°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Lake Butler.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Lake Butler it is highest at 1:17 pm today — 77 minutes after clock noon.
At 81.5°W, Lake Butler 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 Lake Butler today
- Sunrise
- 7:16 am
- Sunset
- 7:19 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 57 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 3 minutes in Lake Butler, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 38 minutes, from 13 hours 57 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 20 minutes in December.
At 28.5°N that puts Lake Butler between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.