What time is it in Rockledge, Florida?
8:03:30 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
- 31,429
Daylight saving in Rockledge
Rockledge is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Rockledge sits at 28.32°N, 80.74°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Rockledge.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Rockledge it is highest at 1:14 pm today — 74 minutes after clock noon.
At 80.7°W, Rockledge 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 Rockledge today
- Sunrise
- 7:13 am
- Sunset
- 7:16 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 57 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 3 minutes in Rockledge, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 36 minutes, from 13 hours 57 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 20 minutes in December.
At 28.3°N that puts Rockledge between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.