What time is it in West Palm Beach, Florida?
8:55:24 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
- 127,744
Daylight saving in West Palm Beach
West Palm Beach is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 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 Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over West Palm Beach it is highest at 1:12 pm today — 72 minutes after clock noon.
At 80.1°W, West Palm Beach 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 West Palm Beach today
- Sunrise
- 7:10 am
- Sunset
- 7:13 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 49 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 3 minutes in West Palm Beach, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes 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.