Local time · Allentown
What time is it in Allentown, Pennsylvania?
4:50:32AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 127,138
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Allentown
Allentown is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Allentown sits at 40.59°N, 75.48°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Allentown.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Allentown it is highest at 11:46 am today — 14 minutes before clock noon.
At 75.5°W, Allentown 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 Allentown today
- Sunrise
- 6:46 am
- Sunset
- 4:45 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours
- Longest day
- 15 hours 5 minutes
Today runs 10 hours in Allentown, 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 Allentown between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.