Local time · Alpharetta
What time is it in Alpharetta, Georgia?
4:50:03AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 67,275
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Alpharetta
Alpharetta is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Alpharetta sits at 34.07°N, 84.27°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Alpharetta.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Alpharetta it is highest at 12:21 pm today — 21 minutes after clock noon.
At 84.3°W, Alpharetta sits 37 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 37 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Alpharetta today
- Sunrise
- 7:08 am
- Sunset
- 5:34 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 27 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 26 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 27 minutes in Alpharetta, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 33 minutes, from 14 hours 26 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 53 minutes in December.
At 34.1°N that puts Alpharetta between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.