Local time · Gloucester
What time is it in Gloucester, 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
- 30,491
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Gloucester
Gloucester is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Gloucester sits at 42.63°N, 70.69°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Gloucester.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Gloucester it is highest at 11:27 am today — 33 minutes before clock noon.
At 70.7°W, Gloucester sits 17 minutes of solar time east of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 17 minutes before noon.
Daylight in Gloucester today
- Sunrise
- 6:32 am
- Sunset
- 4:21 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 50 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 19 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 50 minutes in Gloucester, 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 Gloucester between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.