Local time · Sterling Heights
What time is it in Sterling Heights, Michigan?
4:50:55AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/Detroit
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 134,342
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Sterling Heights
Sterling Heights is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 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 Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Sterling Heights it is highest at 12:16 pm today — 16 minutes after clock noon.
At 83.0°W, Sterling Heights sits 32 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 32 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Sterling Heights today
- Sunrise
- 7:21 am
- Sunset
- 5:11 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 50 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 19 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 50 minutes in Sterling Heights, and the day is getting shorter by 2 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.