What time is it in Pawtucket, Rhode Island?
8:04:32 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
- 76,996
Daylight saving in Pawtucket
Pawtucket is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Pawtucket sits at 41.87°N, 71.37°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Pawtucket.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Pawtucket it is highest at 12:37 pm today — 37 minutes after clock noon.
At 71.4°W, Pawtucket sits comfortably inside its zone. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.
Daylight in Pawtucket today
- Sunrise
- 6:36 am
- Sunset
- 6:37 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 1 minute
- Longest day
- 15 hours 14 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 1 minute in Pawtucket, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 6 minutes, from 15 hours 14 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 8 minutes in December.
At 41.9°N that puts Pawtucket between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.