Local time · Melbourne
What time is it in Melbourne, Florida?
4:48:44AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 87,561
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Melbourne
Melbourne is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Melbourne sits at 28.11°N, 80.66°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Melbourne.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Melbourne it is highest at 12:06 pm today — 6 minutes after clock noon.
At 80.7°W, Melbourne sits 23 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 23 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Melbourne today
- Sunrise
- 6:43 am
- Sunset
- 5:30 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 48 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 56 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 48 minutes in Melbourne, and the day is getting shorter by 1 minute a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 34 minutes, from 13 hours 56 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 21 minutes in December.
At 28.1°N that puts Melbourne between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.