Local time · Paramus
What time is it in Paramus, New Jersey?
4:48:50AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 26,786
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Paramus
Paramus is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Paramus sits at 40.95°N, 74.07°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Paramus.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Paramus it is highest at 11:40 am today — 20 minutes before clock noon.
At 74.1°W, Paramus 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 Paramus 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 Paramus, 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 40.9°N that puts Paramus between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.