What time is it in St. Petersburg, Florida?
8:55:57 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
- 267,102
Daylight saving in St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
St. Petersburg sits at 27.76°N, 82.64°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in St. Petersburg.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over St. Petersburg it is highest at 1:22 pm today — 82 minutes after clock noon.
At 82.6°W, St. Petersburg 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 St. Petersburg today
- Sunrise
- 7:20 am
- Sunset
- 7:23 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 54 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 3 minutes in St. Petersburg, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 31 minutes, from 13 hours 54 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 23 minutes in December.
At 27.8°N that puts St. Petersburg between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.