Local time · Cleveland
What time is it in Cleveland, Tennessee?
4:50:42AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 50,232
- City proper
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About this clock
Cleveland does not keep Tennessee's usual time
Most of Tennessee is on Central Standard Time, but Cleveland 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.
Cleveland is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Cleveland sits at 35.18°N, 84.87°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Cleveland.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Cleveland it is highest at 12:23 pm today — 23 minutes after clock noon.
At 84.9°W, Cleveland sits 39 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 39 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Cleveland today
- Sunrise
- 7:12 am
- Sunset
- 5:34 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 22 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 32 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 22 minutes in Cleveland, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 45 minutes, from 14 hours 32 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 47 minutes in December.
At 35.2°N that puts Cleveland between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.