What time is it in Leesburg, Florida?
8:53:51 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
- 37,815
Daylight saving in Leesburg
Leesburg is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Leesburg sits at 28.72°N, 81.90°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Leesburg.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Leesburg it is highest at 1:19 pm today — 79 minutes after clock noon.
At 81.9°W, Leesburg 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 Leesburg today
- Sunrise
- 7:17 am
- Sunset
- 7:20 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 58 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 3 minutes in Leesburg, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 40 minutes, from 13 hours 58 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 19 minutes in December.
At 28.7°N that puts Leesburg between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.