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Local time · South Plainfield

What time is it in South Plainfield, New Jersey?

4:51:02AM

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
25,062
City proper

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Daylight saving in South Plainfield

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

South Plainfield sits at 40.57°N, 74.41°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in South Plainfield.

Clock time against sun time

The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over South Plainfield it is highest at 11:41 am today — 19 minutes before clock noon.

At 74.4°W, South Plainfield 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 South Plainfield today

Sunrise
6:42 am
Sunset
4:41 pm
Day length
10 hours
Longest day
15 hours 5 minutes

Today runs 10 hours in South Plainfield, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 49 minutes, from 15 hours 5 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 16 minutes in December.

At 40.6°N that puts South Plainfield between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.

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