Local time · Lowell
What time is it in Lowell, Massachusetts?
4:49:13AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 120,418
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Lowell
Lowell is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Lowell sits at 42.64°N, 71.32°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Lowell.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Lowell it is highest at 11:29 am today — 31 minutes before clock noon.
At 71.3°W, Lowell sits 15 minutes of solar time east of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 15 minutes before noon.
Daylight in Lowell today
- Sunrise
- 6:34 am
- Sunset
- 4:24 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 50 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 19 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 50 minutes in Lowell, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 17 minutes, from 15 hours 19 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 3 minutes in December.
At 42.6°N that puts Lowell between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.