Local time · Rochester
What time is it in Rochester, New Hampshire?
4:51:21AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 33,598
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Rochester
Rochester is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Rochester sits at 43.30°N, 70.98°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Rochester.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Rochester it is highest at 11:28 am today — 32 minutes before clock noon.
At 71.0°W, Rochester 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 Rochester today
- Sunrise
- 6:34 am
- Sunset
- 4:21 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 47 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 24 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 47 minutes in Rochester, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 26 minutes, from 15 hours 24 minutes at the June solstice down to 8 hours 58 minutes in December.
At 43.3°N that puts Rochester between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.