What time is it in Fort Wayne, Indiana?
8:54:13 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
- 273,203
Daylight saving in Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Fort Wayne sits at 41.09°N, 85.14°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Fort Wayne.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Fort Wayne it is highest at 1:32 pm today — 92 minutes after clock noon.
At 85.1°W, Fort Wayne 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 Fort Wayne today
- Sunrise
- 7:31 am
- Sunset
- 7:32 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 1 minute
- Longest day
- 15 hours 8 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 1 minute in Fort Wayne, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 55 minutes, from 15 hours 8 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 13 minutes in December.
At 41.1°N that puts Fort Wayne between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.