Local time · Columbia
What time is it in Columbia, South Carolina?
4:51:27AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 144,788
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Columbia
Columbia is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Columbia sits at 34.04°N, 80.91°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Columbia.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Columbia it is highest at 12:07 pm today — 7 minutes after clock noon.
At 80.9°W, Columbia sits 24 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 24 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Columbia today
- Sunrise
- 6:54 am
- Sunset
- 5:21 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 27 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 25 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 27 minutes in Columbia, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 33 minutes, from 14 hours 25 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 53 minutes in December.
At 34.0°N that puts Columbia between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.