What time is it in Carlisle, Pennsylvania?
8:55:03 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
- 22,517
Daylight saving in Carlisle
Carlisle is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Carlisle sits at 40.20°N, 77.20°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Carlisle.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Carlisle it is highest at 1:00 pm today — 60 minutes after clock noon.
At 77.2°W, Carlisle 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 Carlisle today
- Sunrise
- 6:59 am
- Sunset
- 7:01 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 2 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in Carlisle, and the day is getting shorter by 3 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 Carlisle between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.