Local time · Germantown
What time is it in Germantown, Maryland?
4:50:53AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 91,249
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Germantown
Germantown is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Germantown sits at 39.17°N, 77.26°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Germantown.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Germantown it is highest at 11:53 am today — 7 minutes before clock noon.
At 77.3°W, Germantown sits 9 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 9 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Germantown today
- Sunrise
- 6:50 am
- Sunset
- 4:56 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 6 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 56 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 6 minutes in Germantown, 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 Germantown between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.