What time is it in South Bend, Indiana?
8:55:10 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
- 103,713
Daylight saving in South Bend
South Bend is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
South Bend sits at 41.68°N, 86.27°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in South Bend.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over South Bend it is highest at 1:36 pm today — 96 minutes after clock noon.
At 86.3°W, South Bend 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 South Bend today
- Sunrise
- 7:36 am
- Sunset
- 7:37 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 1 minute
- Longest day
- 15 hours 12 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 1 minute in South Bend, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 3 minutes, from 15 hours 12 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 9 minutes in December.
At 41.7°N that puts South Bend between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.