Local time · Richmond
What time is it in Richmond, Kentucky?
4:50:05AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 39,581
- City proper
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About this clock
Richmond does not keep Kentucky's usual time
Most of Kentucky is on Eastern Standard Time, but Richmond 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.
Richmond is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Richmond sits at 37.73°N, 84.30°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Richmond.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Richmond it is highest at 12:21 pm today — 21 minutes after clock noon.
At 84.3°W, Richmond sits 37 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 37 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Richmond today
- Sunrise
- 7:15 am
- Sunset
- 5:27 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 12 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 47 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 12 minutes in Richmond, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 14 minutes, from 14 hours 47 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 33 minutes in December.
At 37.7°N that puts Richmond between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.