Local time · Charleston
What time is it in Charleston, South Carolina?
4:51:29AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 157,665
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Charleston
Charleston is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Charleston sits at 32.83°N, 79.97°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Charleston.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Charleston it is highest at 12:04 pm today — 4 minutes after clock noon.
At 80.0°W, Charleston sits 20 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 20 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Charleston today
- Sunrise
- 6:48 am
- Sunset
- 5:19 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 31 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 19 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 31 minutes in Charleston, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 20 minutes, from 14 hours 19 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 59 minutes in December.
At 32.8°N that puts Charleston between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.