Local time · Ellicott City
What time is it in Ellicott City, Maryland?
4:51:21AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 75,947
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Ellicott City
Ellicott City is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Ellicott City sits at 39.28°N, 76.83°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Ellicott City.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Ellicott City it is highest at 11:51 am today — 9 minutes before clock noon.
At 76.8°W, Ellicott City 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 Ellicott City today
- Sunrise
- 6:48 am
- Sunset
- 4:54 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 5 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 56 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 5 minutes in Ellicott City, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 32 minutes, from 14 hours 56 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 24 minutes in December.
At 39.3°N that puts Ellicott City between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.