What time is it in Sterling Heights, Michigan?
8:55:40 AM
Friday, September 25, 2026. Eastern Daylight Time, UTC−4:00.
- Time zone
- Eastern Daylight Time
- UTC offset
- UTC−4:00
- Daylight saving
- In force now
- Population
- 134,342
Daylight saving in Sterling Heights
Sterling Heights is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Sterling Heights sits at 42.58°N, 83.03°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Sterling Heights.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Sterling Heights it is highest at 1:23 pm today — 83 minutes after clock noon.
At 83.0°W, Sterling Heights sits well toward the western edge of its zone, which is why the sun stays up later here than the clock suggests. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.
Daylight in Sterling Heights today
- Sunrise
- 7:23 am
- Sunset
- 7:24 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 1 minute
- Longest day
- 15 hours 19 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 1 minute in Sterling Heights, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 16 minutes, from 15 hours 19 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 3 minutes in December.
At 42.6°N that puts Sterling Heights between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.