What time is it in Port Charlotte, Florida?
8:56:00 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
- 60,625
Daylight saving in Port Charlotte
Port Charlotte is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Port Charlotte sits at 26.99°N, 82.11°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Port Charlotte.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Port Charlotte it is highest at 1:20 pm today — 80 minutes after clock noon.
At 82.1°W, Port Charlotte 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 Port Charlotte today
- Sunrise
- 7:18 am
- Sunset
- 7:21 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 50 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 3 minutes in Port Charlotte, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 24 minutes, from 13 hours 50 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 26 minutes in December.
At 27.0°N that puts Port Charlotte between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.