What time is it in The Villages, Florida?
8:55:23 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
- 79,077
Daylight saving in The Villages
The Villages is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
The Villages sits at 28.90°N, 81.99°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in The Villages.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over The Villages it is highest at 1:19 pm today — 79 minutes after clock noon.
At 82.0°W, The Villages 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 The Villages today
- Sunrise
- 7:18 am
- Sunset
- 7:21 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 59 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 3 minutes in The Villages, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 42 minutes, from 13 hours 59 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 18 minutes in December.
At 28.9°N that puts The Villages between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.