Local time · Ocala
What time is it in Ocala, Florida?
4:48:39AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 70,251
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Ocala
Ocala is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Ocala sits at 29.18°N, 82.15°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Ocala.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Ocala it is highest at 12:12 pm today — 12 minutes after clock noon.
At 82.2°W, Ocala sits 29 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 29 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Ocala today
- Sunrise
- 6:50 am
- Sunset
- 5:34 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 44 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 1 minute
Today runs 10 hours 44 minutes in Ocala, and the day is getting shorter by 1 minute a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 44 minutes, from 14 hours 1 minute at the June solstice down to 10 hours 16 minutes in December.
At 29.2°N that puts Ocala between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.