Local time · Clarksville
What time is it in Clarksville, Indiana?
4:50:28AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/Kentucky/Louisville
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 22,041
- City proper
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About this clock
Clarksville does not keep Indiana's usual time
Most of Indiana is on Eastern Standard Time, but Clarksville keeps Eastern Standard Time — the same time as the rest of the state. This is the kind of thing that catches people out, and it is why the zone is resolved from the city’s own coordinates rather than assumed from the state.
Clarksville is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Clarksville sits at 38.32°N, 85.77°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Clarksville.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Clarksville it is highest at 12:27 pm today — 27 minutes after clock noon.
At 85.8°W, Clarksville sits 43 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 43 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Clarksville today
- Sunrise
- 7:22 am
- Sunset
- 5:32 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 9 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 50 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 9 minutes in Clarksville, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 21 minutes, from 14 hours 50 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 30 minutes in December.
At 38.3°N that puts Clarksville between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.