Local time · Southfield
What time is it in Southfield, 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
- 76,874
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Southfield
Southfield is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Southfield sits at 42.47°N, 83.26°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Southfield.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Southfield it is highest at 12:17 pm today — 17 minutes after clock noon.
At 83.3°W, Southfield 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 Southfield today
- Sunrise
- 7:21 am
- Sunset
- 5:12 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 51 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 18 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 51 minutes in Southfield, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 14 minutes, from 15 hours 18 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 4 minutes in December.
At 42.5°N that puts Southfield between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.