What time is it in Margate, Florida?
8:03:43 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
- 60,650
Daylight saving in Margate
Margate is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Margate sits at 26.25°N, 80.21°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Margate.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Margate it is highest at 1:12 pm today — 72 minutes after clock noon.
At 80.2°W, Margate 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 Margate today
- Sunrise
- 7:10 am
- Sunset
- 7:14 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 47 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 3 minutes in Margate, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 18 minutes, from 13 hours 47 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 30 minutes in December.
At 26.2°N that puts Margate between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.