Local time · Brockton
What time is it in Brockton, Massachusetts?
4:50:02AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 105,788
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Brockton
Brockton is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Brockton sits at 42.08°N, 71.02°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Brockton.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Brockton it is highest at 11:28 am today — 32 minutes before clock noon.
At 71.0°W, Brockton sits 16 minutes of solar time east of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 16 minutes before noon.
Daylight in Brockton today
- Sunrise
- 6:32 am
- Sunset
- 4:24 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 53 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 15 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 53 minutes in Brockton, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 9 minutes, from 15 hours 15 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 6 minutes in December.
At 42.1°N that puts Brockton between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.