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Local time · East Orange

What time is it in East Orange, New Jersey?

4:51:04AM

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
71,850
City proper

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Daylight saving in East Orange

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

East Orange sits at 40.77°N, 74.21°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in East Orange.

Clock time against sun time

The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over East Orange it is highest at 11:41 am today — 19 minutes before clock noon.

At 74.2°W, East Orange 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 East Orange today

Sunrise
6:41 am
Sunset
4:40 pm
Day length
9 hours 59 minutes
Longest day
15 hours 6 minutes

Today runs 9 hours 59 minutes in East Orange, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 51 minutes, from 15 hours 6 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 15 minutes in December.

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

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