Local time · Grand Rapids
What time is it in Grand Rapids, 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
- 200,117
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Grand Rapids
Grand Rapids is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Grand Rapids sits at 42.96°N, 85.66°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Grand Rapids.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Grand Rapids it is highest at 12:26 pm today — 26 minutes after clock noon.
At 85.7°W, Grand Rapids sits 43 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 43 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Grand Rapids today
- Sunrise
- 7:32 am
- Sunset
- 5:21 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 48 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 21 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 48 minutes in Grand Rapids, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 21 minutes, from 15 hours 21 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours in December.
At 43.0°N that puts Grand Rapids between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.