What time is it in Kennesaw, Georgia?
8:54:57 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
- 37,740
Daylight saving in Kennesaw
Kennesaw is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Kennesaw sits at 34.03°N, 84.62°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Kennesaw.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Kennesaw it is highest at 1:30 pm today — 90 minutes after clock noon.
At 84.6°W, Kennesaw 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 Kennesaw today
- Sunrise
- 7:28 am
- Sunset
- 7:31 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 25 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in Kennesaw, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 32 minutes, from 14 hours 25 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 53 minutes in December.
At 34.0°N that puts Kennesaw between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.