Local time · Aiken
What time is it in Aiken, South Carolina?
4:51:18AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 32,694
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Aiken
Aiken is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Aiken sits at 33.53°N, 81.73°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Aiken.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Aiken it is highest at 12:11 pm today — 11 minutes after clock noon.
At 81.7°W, Aiken sits 27 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 27 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Aiken today
- Sunrise
- 6:56 am
- Sunset
- 5:25 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 29 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 23 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 29 minutes in Aiken, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 27 minutes, from 14 hours 23 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 56 minutes in December.
At 33.5°N that puts Aiken between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.