Local time · Bristol
What time is it in Bristol, Tennessee?
4:50:20AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 27,867
- City proper
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About this clock
Bristol does not keep Tennessee's usual time
Most of Tennessee is on Central Standard Time, but Bristol keeps Eastern Standard Time — 1 hour ahead of the rest of the state. This is the kind of thing that catches people out, and it is why the zone is resolved from the city’s own coordinates rather than assumed from the state.
Bristol is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Bristol sits at 36.56°N, 82.22°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Bristol.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Bristol it is highest at 12:13 pm today — 13 minutes after clock noon.
At 82.2°W, Bristol sits 29 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 29 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Bristol today
- Sunrise
- 7:04 am
- Sunset
- 5:21 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 17 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 40 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 17 minutes in Bristol, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours, from 14 hours 40 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 40 minutes in December.
At 36.6°N that puts Bristol between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.