Local time · Elizabeth
What time is it in Elizabeth, New Jersey?
4:50:32AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 140,413
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Elizabeth
Elizabeth is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Elizabeth sits at 40.67°N, 74.19°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Elizabeth.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Elizabeth it is highest at 11:41 am today — 19 minutes before clock noon.
At 74.2°W, Elizabeth 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 Elizabeth today
- Sunrise
- 6:41 am
- Sunset
- 4:40 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 59 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 5 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 59 minutes in Elizabeth, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 50 minutes, from 15 hours 5 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 15 minutes in December.
At 40.7°N that puts Elizabeth between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.