Local time · West Palm Beach
What time is it in West Palm Beach, Florida?
4:50:50AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 127,744
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in West Palm Beach
West Palm Beach is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
West Palm Beach sits at 26.75°N, 80.13°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in West Palm Beach.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over West Palm Beach it is highest at 12:04 pm today — 4 minutes after clock noon.
At 80.1°W, West Palm Beach sits 21 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 21 minutes after noon.
Daylight in West Palm Beach today
- Sunrise
- 6:38 am
- Sunset
- 5:30 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 52 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 49 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 52 minutes in West Palm Beach, and the day is getting shorter by 1 minute a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 22 minutes, from 13 hours 49 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 27 minutes in December.
At 26.7°N that puts West Palm Beach between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.