What time is it in Wakefield, Massachusetts?
8:52:59 AM
Friday, September 25, 2026. Eastern Daylight Time, UTC−4:00.
- Time zone
- Eastern Daylight Time
- UTC offset
- UTC−4:00
- Daylight saving
- In force now
- Population
- 27,090
Daylight saving in Wakefield
Wakefield is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Wakefield sits at 42.50°N, 71.06°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Wakefield.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Wakefield it is highest at 12:35 pm today — 35 minutes after clock noon.
At 71.1°W, Wakefield sits comfortably inside its zone. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.
Daylight in Wakefield today
- Sunrise
- 6:35 am
- Sunset
- 6:36 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 1 minute
- Longest day
- 15 hours 18 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 1 minute in Wakefield, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 15 minutes, from 15 hours 18 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 3 minutes in December.
At 42.5°N that puts Wakefield between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.