Local time · Woonsocket
What time is it in Woonsocket, Rhode Island?
4:49:02AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 44,508
- City proper
Around the world
About this clock
Daylight saving in Woonsocket
Woonsocket is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Woonsocket sits at 42.00°N, 71.50°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Woonsocket.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Woonsocket it is highest at 11:30 am today — 30 minutes before clock noon.
At 71.5°W, Woonsocket sits 14 minutes of solar time east of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 14 minutes before noon.
Daylight in Woonsocket today
- Sunrise
- 6:33 am
- Sunset
- 4:26 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 53 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 14 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 53 minutes in Woonsocket, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 8 minutes, from 15 hours 14 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 7 minutes in December.
At 42.0°N that puts Woonsocket between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.