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Local time · Hillsborough

What time is it in Hillsborough, New Jersey?

4:51:08AM

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
22,214
City proper

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Daylight saving in Hillsborough

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

Hillsborough sits at 40.51°N, 74.65°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Hillsborough.

Clock time against sun time

The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Hillsborough it is highest at 11:42 am today — 18 minutes before clock noon.

At 74.7°W, Hillsborough 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 Hillsborough today

Sunrise
6:42 am
Sunset
4:42 pm
Day length
10 hours
Longest day
15 hours 4 minutes

Today runs 10 hours in Hillsborough, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 48 minutes, from 15 hours 4 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 16 minutes in December.

At 40.5°N that puts Hillsborough between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.

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