Local time · Jersey City
What time is it in Jersey City, New Jersey?
4:51:06AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 302,824
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Jersey City
Jersey City is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Jersey City sits at 40.71°N, 74.06°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Jersey City.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Jersey City it is highest at 11:40 am today — 20 minutes before clock noon.
At 74.1°W, Jersey City 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 Jersey City 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 Jersey City, 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 40.7°N that puts Jersey City between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.