Local time · Scranton
What time is it in Scranton, Pennsylvania?
4:49:20AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 75,905
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Scranton
Scranton is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Scranton sits at 41.40°N, 75.67°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Scranton.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Scranton it is highest at 11:46 am today — 14 minutes before clock noon.
At 75.7°W, Scranton 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 Scranton today
- Sunrise
- 6:49 am
- Sunset
- 4:44 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 56 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 10 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 56 minutes in Scranton, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours, from 15 hours 10 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 11 minutes in December.
At 41.4°N that puts Scranton between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.