Local time · Somerville
What time is it in Somerville, Massachusetts?
4:49:21AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 82,149
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Somerville
Somerville is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Somerville sits at 42.39°N, 71.10°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Somerville.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Somerville it is highest at 11:28 am today — 32 minutes before clock noon.
At 71.1°W, Somerville 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 Somerville today
- Sunrise
- 6:33 am
- Sunset
- 4:24 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 51 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 17 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 51 minutes in Somerville, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 13 minutes, from 15 hours 17 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 4 minutes in December.
At 42.4°N that puts Somerville between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.