What time is it in Tarpon Springs, Florida?
8:55:59 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
- 26,168
Daylight saving in Tarpon Springs
Tarpon Springs is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Tarpon Springs sits at 28.15°N, 82.78°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Tarpon Springs.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Tarpon Springs it is highest at 1:22 pm today — 82 minutes after clock noon.
At 82.8°W, Tarpon Springs 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 Tarpon Springs today
- Sunrise
- 7:21 am
- Sunset
- 7:24 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 56 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 3 minutes in Tarpon Springs, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 35 minutes, from 13 hours 56 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 21 minutes in December.
At 28.1°N that puts Tarpon Springs between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.