Local time · Columbus
What time is it in Columbus, Ohio?
4:48:58AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 933,263
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Columbus
Columbus is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Columbus sits at 39.99°N, 82.99°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Columbus.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Columbus it is highest at 12:16 pm today — 16 minutes after clock noon.
At 83.0°W, Columbus sits 32 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 32 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Columbus today
- Sunrise
- 7:15 am
- Sunset
- 5:17 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 1 minute
Today runs 10 hours 2 minutes in Columbus, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 41 minutes, from 15 hours 1 minute at the June solstice down to 9 hours 20 minutes in December.
At 40.0°N that puts Columbus between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.