What time is it in Elkhart, Indiana?
8:54:52 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
- 53,690
Daylight saving in Elkhart
Elkhart is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Elkhart sits at 41.69°N, 85.96°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Elkhart.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Elkhart it is highest at 1:35 pm today — 95 minutes after clock noon.
At 86.0°W, Elkhart 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 Elkhart today
- Sunrise
- 7:34 am
- Sunset
- 7:36 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 1 minute
- Longest day
- 15 hours 12 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 1 minute in Elkhart, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 4 minutes, from 15 hours 12 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 9 minutes in December.
At 41.7°N that puts Elkhart between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.