What time is it in Sweetwater, Florida?
8:04:20 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
- 21,321
Daylight saving in Sweetwater
Sweetwater is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Sweetwater sits at 25.78°N, 80.39°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Sweetwater.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Sweetwater it is highest at 1:13 pm today — 73 minutes after clock noon.
At 80.4°W, Sweetwater 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 Sweetwater today
- Sunrise
- 7:11 am
- Sunset
- 7:14 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 45 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 3 minutes in Sweetwater, and the day is getting shorter by 1 minute a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 13 minutes, from 13 hours 45 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 32 minutes in December.
At 25.8°N that puts Sweetwater between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.