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Local time · Hawthorne

What time is it in Hawthorne, 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
20,006
City proper

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Daylight saving in Hawthorne

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

Hawthorne sits at 40.96°N, 74.16°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Hawthorne.

Clock time against sun time

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

At 74.2°W, Hawthorne 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 Hawthorne today

Sunrise
6:41 am
Sunset
4:39 pm
Day length
9 hours 58 minutes
Longest day
15 hours 7 minutes

Today runs 9 hours 58 minutes in Hawthorne, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 54 minutes, from 15 hours 7 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 14 minutes in December.

At 41.0°N that puts Hawthorne between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.

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