Local time · South Portland
What time is it in South Portland, Maine?
4:51:36AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 26,994
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in South Portland
South Portland is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
South Portland sits at 43.63°N, 70.29°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in South Portland.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over South Portland it is highest at 11:25 am today — 35 minutes before clock noon.
At 70.3°W, South Portland sits 19 minutes of solar time east of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 19 minutes before noon.
Daylight in South Portland today
- Sunrise
- 6:32 am
- Sunset
- 4:17 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 45 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 26 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 45 minutes in South Portland, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 31 minutes, from 15 hours 26 minutes at the June solstice down to 8 hours 56 minutes in December.
At 43.6°N that puts South Portland between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.