Local time · Lansing
What time is it in Lansing, Michigan?
4:49:44AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/Detroit
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 114,336
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Lansing
Lansing is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Lansing sits at 42.71°N, 84.56°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Lansing.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Lansing it is highest at 12:22 pm today — 22 minutes after clock noon.
At 84.6°W, Lansing sits 38 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 38 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Lansing today
- Sunrise
- 7:27 am
- Sunset
- 5:17 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 49 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 20 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 49 minutes in Lansing, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 18 minutes, from 15 hours 20 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 2 minutes in December.
At 42.7°N that puts Lansing between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.