Local time · Johnson City
What time is it in Johnson City, Tennessee?
4:50:44AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 73,635
- City proper
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About this clock
Johnson City does not keep Tennessee's usual time
Most of Tennessee is on Central Standard Time, but Johnson City 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.
Johnson City is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Johnson City sits at 36.34°N, 82.38°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Johnson City.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Johnson City it is highest at 12:13 pm today — 13 minutes after clock noon.
At 82.4°W, Johnson City sits 30 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 30 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Johnson City today
- Sunrise
- 7:04 am
- Sunset
- 5:22 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 18 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 38 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 18 minutes in Johnson City, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 58 minutes, from 14 hours 38 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 41 minutes in December.
At 36.3°N that puts Johnson City between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.