Local time · Rock Hill
What time is it in Rock Hill, South Carolina?
4:51:34AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 75,798
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Rock Hill
Rock Hill is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Rock Hill sits at 34.94°N, 81.02°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Rock Hill.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Rock Hill it is highest at 12:08 pm today — 8 minutes after clock noon.
At 81.0°W, Rock Hill 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 Rock Hill today
- Sunrise
- 6:56 am
- Sunset
- 5:19 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 23 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 30 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 23 minutes in Rock Hill, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 42 minutes, from 14 hours 30 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 48 minutes in December.
At 34.9°N that puts Rock Hill between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.