Local time · Silver Spring
What time is it in Silver Spring, Maryland?
4:49:23AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 81,015
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Silver Spring
Silver Spring is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Silver Spring sits at 39.00°N, 77.02°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Silver Spring.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Silver Spring it is highest at 11:52 am today — 8 minutes before clock noon.
At 77.0°W, Silver Spring sits 8 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 8 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Silver Spring today
- Sunrise
- 6:49 am
- Sunset
- 4:55 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 7 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 54 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 7 minutes in Silver Spring, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 29 minutes, from 14 hours 54 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 26 minutes in December.
At 39.0°N that puts Silver Spring between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.