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Local time · Cliffside Park

What time is it in Cliffside Park, New Jersey?

4:50:36AM

Friday, November 13, 2026Eastern Standard Time · UTC−5:00 · standard time
Time zone
EST
America/New_York
UTC offset
−5:00
Standard is −5:00
Daylight saving
Not in force
Starts Sun, Mar 14
Population
26,183
City proper

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Daylight saving in Cliffside Park

Cliffside Park is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.

Cliffside Park sits at 40.82°N, 73.99°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Cliffside Park.

Clock time against sun time

The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Cliffside Park it is highest at 11:40 am today — 20 minutes before clock noon.

At 74.0°W, Cliffside Park sits almost exactly on Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the clock and the sun agree to within a few minutes.

Daylight in Cliffside Park today

Sunrise
6:40 am
Sunset
4:39 pm
Day length
9 hours 59 minutes
Longest day
15 hours 6 minutes

Today runs 9 hours 59 minutes in Cliffside Park, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 52 minutes, from 15 hours 6 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 14 minutes in December.

At 40.8°N that puts Cliffside Park between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.

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