Local time · Louisville
What time is it in Louisville, Kentucky?
4:51:09AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/Kentucky/Louisville
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 640,796
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Louisville
Louisville is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Louisville sits at 38.17°N, 85.65°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Louisville.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Louisville it is highest at 12:26 pm today — 26 minutes after clock noon.
At 85.6°W, Louisville 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 Louisville today
- Sunrise
- 7:21 am
- Sunset
- 5:31 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 10 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 49 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 10 minutes in Louisville, 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 Louisville between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.