Local time · Port Charlotte
What time is it in Port Charlotte, Florida?
4:51:05AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 60,625
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Port Charlotte
Port Charlotte is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 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 Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Port Charlotte it is highest at 12:12 pm today — 12 minutes after clock noon.
At 82.1°W, Port Charlotte sits 28 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 28 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Port Charlotte today
- Sunrise
- 6:47 am
- Sunset
- 5:38 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 51 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 50 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 51 minutes in Port Charlotte, and the day is getting shorter by 1 minute 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.