Local time · Hilton Head Island
What time is it in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina?
4:51:52AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 38,158
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Hilton Head Island
Hilton Head Island is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Hilton Head Island sits at 32.19°N, 80.74°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Hilton Head Island.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Hilton Head Island it is highest at 12:07 pm today — 7 minutes after clock noon.
At 80.7°W, Hilton Head Island sits 23 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 23 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Hilton Head Island today
- Sunrise
- 6:50 am
- Sunset
- 5:23 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 33 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 16 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 33 minutes in Hilton Head Island, and the day is getting shorter by 1 minute a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 13 minutes, from 14 hours 16 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 2 minutes in December.
At 32.2°N that puts Hilton Head Island between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.