What time is it in Lutz, Florida?
8:52:38 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
- 23,707
Daylight saving in Lutz
Lutz is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Lutz sits at 28.14°N, 82.45°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Lutz.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Lutz it is highest at 1:21 pm today — 81 minutes after clock noon.
At 82.4°W, Lutz 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 Lutz today
- Sunrise
- 7:19 am
- Sunset
- 7:22 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 56 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 3 minutes in Lutz, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 35 minutes, from 13 hours 56 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 21 minutes in December.
At 28.1°N that puts Lutz between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.