Local time · Lancaster
What time is it in Lancaster, Pennsylvania?
4:49:36AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 58,441
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Lancaster
Lancaster is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Lancaster sits at 40.04°N, 76.30°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Lancaster.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Lancaster it is highest at 11:49 am today — 11 minutes before clock noon.
At 76.3°W, Lancaster 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 Lancaster today
- Sunrise
- 6:48 am
- Sunset
- 4:50 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 1 minute
Today runs 10 hours 2 minutes in Lancaster, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 42 minutes, from 15 hours 1 minute at the June solstice down to 9 hours 19 minutes in December.
At 40.0°N that puts Lancaster between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.