What time is it in Fairfield, Ohio?
8:03:42 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
- 45,094
Daylight saving in Fairfield
Fairfield is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Fairfield sits at 39.33°N, 84.54°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Fairfield.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Fairfield it is highest at 1:29 pm today — 89 minutes after clock noon.
At 84.5°W, Fairfield 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 Fairfield today
- Sunrise
- 7:28 am
- Sunset
- 7:30 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 57 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in Fairfield, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 33 minutes, from 14 hours 57 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 24 minutes in December.
At 39.3°N that puts Fairfield between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.