Local time · Perth Amboy
What time is it in Perth Amboy, New Jersey?
4:50:54AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 56,939
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Perth Amboy
Perth Amboy is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Perth Amboy sits at 40.52°N, 74.27°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Perth Amboy.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Perth Amboy it is highest at 11:41 am today — 19 minutes before clock noon.
At 74.3°W, Perth Amboy 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 Perth Amboy today
- Sunrise
- 6:41 am
- Sunset
- 4:41 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours
- Longest day
- 15 hours 4 minutes
Today runs 10 hours in Perth Amboy, 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 Perth Amboy between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.