What time is it in Princeton, Florida?
8:53:11 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
- 39,308
Daylight saving in Princeton
Princeton is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Princeton sits at 25.54°N, 80.40°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Princeton.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Princeton it is highest at 1:13 pm today — 73 minutes after clock noon.
At 80.4°W, Princeton 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 Princeton today
- Sunrise
- 7:11 am
- Sunset
- 7:14 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 44 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 3 minutes in Princeton, and the day is getting shorter by 1 minute a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 11 minutes, from 13 hours 44 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 33 minutes in December.
At 25.5°N that puts Princeton among the least seasonal places in the country, where the year barely opens and closes at all.