Local time · Frankfort
What time is it in Frankfort, Kentucky?
4:50:30AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 28,610
- City proper
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About this clock
Frankfort does not keep Kentucky's usual time
Most of Kentucky is on Eastern Standard Time, but Frankfort 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.
Frankfort is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Frankfort sits at 38.19°N, 84.87°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Frankfort.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Frankfort it is highest at 12:23 pm today — 23 minutes after clock noon.
At 84.9°W, Frankfort sits 39 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 39 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Frankfort today
- Sunrise
- 7:18 am
- Sunset
- 5:28 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 10 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 49 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 10 minutes in Frankfort, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 19 minutes, from 14 hours 49 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 30 minutes in December.
At 38.2°N that puts Frankfort between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.