What time is it in Winter Garden, Florida?
8:04:24 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
- 48,771
Daylight saving in Winter Garden
Winter Garden is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Winter Garden sits at 28.54°N, 81.60°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Winter Garden.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Winter Garden it is highest at 1:17 pm today — 77 minutes after clock noon.
At 81.6°W, Winter Garden 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 Winter Garden today
- Sunrise
- 7:16 am
- Sunset
- 7:19 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 58 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 3 minutes in Winter Garden, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 38 minutes, from 13 hours 58 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 19 minutes in December.
At 28.5°N that puts Winter Garden between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.