Local time · Mount Pleasant
What time is it in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina?
4:51:23AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 95,604
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Mount Pleasant
Mount Pleasant is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 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.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Mount Pleasant it is highest at 12:03 pm today — 3 minutes after clock noon.
At 79.9°W, Mount Pleasant sits 19 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 19 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Mount Pleasant 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 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.