What time is it in East Providence, Rhode Island?
8:05:16 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
- 47,961
Daylight saving in East Providence
East Providence is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
East Providence sits at 41.80°N, 71.36°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in East Providence.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over East Providence it is highest at 12:37 pm today — 37 minutes after clock noon.
At 71.4°W, East Providence sits comfortably inside its zone. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.
Daylight in East Providence today
- Sunrise
- 6:36 am
- Sunset
- 6:37 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 1 minute
- Longest day
- 15 hours 13 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 1 minute in East Providence, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 5 minutes, from 15 hours 13 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 8 minutes in December.
At 41.8°N that puts East Providence between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.