What time is it in Palm Coast, Florida?
8:04:37 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
- 106,729
Daylight saving in Palm Coast
Palm Coast is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Palm Coast sits at 29.54°N, 81.24°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Palm Coast.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Palm Coast it is highest at 1:16 pm today — 76 minutes after clock noon.
At 81.2°W, Palm Coast 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 Palm Coast today
- Sunrise
- 7:15 am
- Sunset
- 7:18 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 2 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 3 minutes in Palm Coast, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 48 minutes, from 14 hours 2 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 15 minutes in December.
At 29.5°N that puts Palm Coast between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.