Local time · Harrisburg
What time is it in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania?
4:51:00AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 50,649
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Harrisburg
Harrisburg is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Harrisburg sits at 40.28°N, 76.89°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Harrisburg.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Harrisburg it is highest at 11:51 am today — 9 minutes before clock noon.
At 76.9°W, Harrisburg sits 8 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 8 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Harrisburg today
- Sunrise
- 6:51 am
- Sunset
- 4:52 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 1 minute
- Longest day
- 15 hours 3 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 1 minute in Harrisburg, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 45 minutes, from 15 hours 3 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 18 minutes in December.
At 40.3°N that puts Harrisburg between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.