Local time · Princeton
What time is it in Princeton, New Jersey?
4:50:25AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 31,445
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Princeton
Princeton is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Princeton sits at 40.36°N, 74.67°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Princeton.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Princeton it is highest at 11:42 am today — 18 minutes before clock noon.
At 74.7°W, Princeton 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 Princeton today
- Sunrise
- 6:42 am
- Sunset
- 4:43 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 1 minute
- Longest day
- 15 hours 3 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 1 minute in Princeton, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 46 minutes, from 15 hours 3 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 17 minutes in December.
At 40.4°N that puts Princeton between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.