Local time · Sarasota
What time is it in Sarasota, Florida?
4:49:49AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 57,764
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Sarasota
Sarasota is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Sarasota sits at 27.34°N, 82.54°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Sarasota.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Sarasota it is highest at 12:14 pm today — 14 minutes after clock noon.
At 82.5°W, Sarasota sits 30 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 30 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Sarasota today
- Sunrise
- 6:49 am
- Sunset
- 5:39 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 50 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 52 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 50 minutes in Sarasota, and the day is getting shorter by 1 minute a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 27 minutes, from 13 hours 52 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 25 minutes in December.
At 27.3°N that puts Sarasota between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.