Local time · Dover
What time is it in Dover, New Hampshire?
4:50:38AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 33,909
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Dover
Dover is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Dover sits at 43.19°N, 70.88°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Dover.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Dover it is highest at 11:27 am today — 33 minutes before clock noon.
At 70.9°W, Dover sits 16 minutes of solar time east of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 16 minutes before noon.
Daylight in Dover today
- Sunrise
- 6:34 am
- Sunset
- 4:21 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 47 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 23 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 47 minutes in Dover, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 24 minutes, from 15 hours 23 minutes at the June solstice down to 8 hours 59 minutes in December.
At 43.2°N that puts Dover between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.