What time is it in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina?

Mount Pleasant is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.

Mount Pleasant sits at 32.81°N, 79.87°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Mount Pleasant.

The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Mount Pleasant it is highest at 1:11 pm today — 71 minutes after clock noon.

At 79.9°W, Mount Pleasant sits well toward the western edge of its zone, which is why the sun stays up later here than the clock suggests. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.

Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in Mount Pleasant, 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 Mount Pleasant between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.