What time is it in Lakeside, Florida?
8:52:29 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
- 31,275
Daylight saving in Lakeside
Lakeside is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Lakeside sits at 30.14°N, 81.77°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Lakeside.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Lakeside it is highest at 1:18 pm today — 78 minutes after clock noon.
At 81.8°W, Lakeside 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 Lakeside today
- Sunrise
- 7:17 am
- Sunset
- 7:20 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 5 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 3 minutes in Lakeside, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 53 minutes, from 14 hours 5 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 12 minutes in December.
At 30.1°N that puts Lakeside between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.