Local time · Detroit
What time is it in Detroit, Michigan?
4:50:30AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/Detroit
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 645,705
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Detroit
Detroit is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Detroit sits at 42.38°N, 83.10°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Detroit.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Detroit it is highest at 12:16 pm today — 16 minutes after clock noon.
At 83.1°W, Detroit sits 32 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 32 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Detroit today
- Sunrise
- 7:21 am
- Sunset
- 5:12 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 51 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 17 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 51 minutes in Detroit, 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 Detroit between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.