Local time · Bay City
What time is it in Bay City, Michigan?
4:50:57AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/Detroit
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 32,086
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Bay City
Bay City is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Bay City sits at 43.59°N, 83.89°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Bay City.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Bay City it is highest at 12:19 pm today — 19 minutes after clock noon.
At 83.9°W, Bay City sits 36 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 36 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Bay City today
- Sunrise
- 7:27 am
- Sunset
- 5:12 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 45 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 26 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 45 minutes in Bay City, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 30 minutes, from 15 hours 26 minutes at the June solstice down to 8 hours 56 minutes in December.
At 43.6°N that puts Bay City between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.