Local time · St. Petersburg
What time is it in St. Petersburg, Florida?
4:51:03AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 267,102
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 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 Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over St. Petersburg it is highest at 12:14 pm today — 14 minutes after clock noon.
At 82.6°W, St. Petersburg sits 31 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 31 minutes after noon.
Daylight in St. Petersburg today
- Sunrise
- 6:50 am
- Sunset
- 5:39 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 49 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 54 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 49 minutes in St. Petersburg, and the day is getting shorter by 1 minute 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.