Local time · Trenton
What time is it in Trenton, New Jersey?
4:50:52AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 91,193
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Trenton
Trenton is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Trenton sits at 40.22°N, 74.76°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Trenton.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Trenton it is highest at 11:43 am today — 17 minutes before clock noon.
At 74.8°W, Trenton 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 Trenton today
- Sunrise
- 6:42 am
- Sunset
- 4:43 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 1 minute
- Longest day
- 15 hours 2 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 1 minute in Trenton, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 44 minutes, from 15 hours 2 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 18 minutes in December.
At 40.2°N that puts Trenton between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.