Local time · Lakeland
What time is it in Lakeland, Florida?
4:49:45AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 124,990
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Lakeland
Lakeland is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Lakeland sits at 28.06°N, 81.95°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Lakeland.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Lakeland it is highest at 12:12 pm today — 12 minutes after clock noon.
At 82.0°W, Lakeland sits 28 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 28 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Lakeland today
- Sunrise
- 6:48 am
- Sunset
- 5:35 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 48 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 55 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 48 minutes in Lakeland, and the day is getting shorter by 1 minute a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 34 minutes, from 13 hours 55 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 22 minutes in December.
At 28.1°N that puts Lakeland between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.