Local time · Columbia
What time is it in Columbia, Maryland?
4:50:39AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 104,681
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Columbia
Columbia is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Columbia sits at 39.20°N, 76.86°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Columbia.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Columbia it is highest at 11:51 am today — 9 minutes before clock noon.
At 76.9°W, Columbia sits almost exactly on Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the clock and the sun agree to within a few minutes.
Daylight in Columbia today
- Sunrise
- 6:48 am
- Sunset
- 4:54 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 6 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 56 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 6 minutes in Columbia, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 31 minutes, from 14 hours 56 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 24 minutes in December.
At 39.2°N that puts Columbia between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.