What time is it in Tavares, Florida?
8:53:46 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
- 22,007
Daylight saving in Tavares
Tavares is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Tavares sits at 28.77°N, 81.76°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Tavares.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Tavares it is highest at 1:18 pm today — 78 minutes after clock noon.
At 81.8°W, Tavares 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 Tavares today
- Sunrise
- 7:17 am
- Sunset
- 7:20 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 59 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 3 minutes in Tavares, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 40 minutes, from 13 hours 59 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 18 minutes in December.
At 28.8°N that puts Tavares between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.