What time is it in New Castle, Pennsylvania?

New Castle is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.

New Castle sits at 41.00°N, 80.35°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in New Castle.

The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over New Castle it is highest at 1:12 pm today — 72 minutes after clock noon.

At 80.3°W, New Castle 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.

Today runs 12 hours 1 minute in New Castle, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 54 minutes, from 15 hours 8 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 13 minutes in December.

At 41.0°N that puts New Castle between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.