Local time · Winchester
What time is it in Winchester, Kentucky?
4:50:00AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 19,413
- City proper
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About this clock
Winchester does not keep Kentucky's usual time
Most of Kentucky is on Eastern Standard Time, but Winchester 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.
Winchester is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Winchester sits at 38.00°N, 84.19°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Winchester.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Winchester it is highest at 12:21 pm today — 21 minutes after clock noon.
At 84.2°W, Winchester 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 Winchester today
- Sunrise
- 7:15 am
- Sunset
- 5:26 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 11 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 48 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 11 minutes in Winchester, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 17 minutes, from 14 hours 48 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 31 minutes in December.
At 38.0°N that puts Winchester between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.