What time is it in Jacksonville, North Carolina?
8:55:48 AM
Friday, September 25, 2026. Eastern Daylight Time, UTC−4:00.
- Time zone
- Eastern Daylight Time
- UTC offset
- UTC−4:00
- Daylight saving
- In force now
- Population
- 70,840
Daylight saving in Jacksonville
Jacksonville is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Jacksonville sits at 34.73°N, 77.39°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Jacksonville.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Jacksonville it is highest at 1:01 pm today — 61 minutes after clock noon.
At 77.4°W, Jacksonville sits well toward the western edge of its zone, which is why the sun stays up later here than the clock suggests. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.
Daylight in Jacksonville today
- Sunrise
- 7:00 am
- Sunset
- 7:02 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 29 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in Jacksonville, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 40 minutes, from 14 hours 29 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 49 minutes in December.
At 34.7°N that puts Jacksonville between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.