Local time · Watertown
What time is it in Watertown, Massachusetts?
4:50:07AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 35,985
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Watertown
Watertown is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Watertown sits at 42.37°N, 71.18°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Watertown.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Watertown it is highest at 11:28 am today — 32 minutes before clock noon.
At 71.2°W, Watertown 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 Watertown 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 Watertown, 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 Watertown between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.