Local time · Barnstable
What time is it in Barnstable, Massachusetts?
4:48:52AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 49,831
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Barnstable
Barnstable is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Barnstable sits at 41.66°N, 70.36°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Barnstable.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Barnstable it is highest at 11:25 am today — 35 minutes before clock noon.
At 70.4°W, Barnstable 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 Barnstable today
- Sunrise
- 6:28 am
- Sunset
- 4:22 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 55 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 12 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 55 minutes in Barnstable, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 3 minutes, from 15 hours 12 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 9 minutes in December.
At 41.7°N that puts Barnstable between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.