Local time · Gardner
What time is it in Gardner, Massachusetts?
4:48:59AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 21,381
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Gardner
Gardner is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Gardner sits at 42.58°N, 71.99°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Gardner.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Gardner it is highest at 11:32 am today — 28 minutes before clock noon.
At 72.0°W, Gardner sits 12 minutes of solar time east of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 12 minutes before noon.
Daylight in Gardner today
- Sunrise
- 6:37 am
- Sunset
- 4:27 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 50 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 19 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 50 minutes in Gardner, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 16 minutes, from 15 hours 19 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 3 minutes in December.
At 42.6°N that puts Gardner between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.