Local time · Royal Oak
What time is it in Royal Oak, Michigan?
4:50:35AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/Detroit
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 58,251
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Royal Oak
Royal Oak is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Royal Oak sits at 42.51°N, 83.15°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Royal Oak.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Royal Oak it is highest at 12:16 pm today — 16 minutes after clock noon.
At 83.2°W, Royal Oak sits 33 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 33 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Royal Oak today
- Sunrise
- 7:21 am
- Sunset
- 5:12 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 50 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 18 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 50 minutes in Royal Oak, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 15 minutes, from 15 hours 18 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 3 minutes in December.
At 42.5°N that puts Royal Oak between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.