What time is it in Plant City, Florida?
8:05:04 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
- 43,046
Daylight saving in Plant City
Plant City is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Plant City sits at 28.02°N, 82.12°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Plant City.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Plant City it is highest at 1:20 pm today — 80 minutes after clock noon.
At 82.1°W, Plant City 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 Plant City today
- Sunrise
- 7:18 am
- Sunset
- 7:21 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 55 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 3 minutes in Plant City, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 33 minutes, from 13 hours 55 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 22 minutes in December.
At 28.0°N that puts Plant City between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.