Local time · Kingsport
What time is it in Kingsport, Tennessee?
4:51:12AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 57,109
- City proper
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About this clock
Kingsport does not keep Tennessee's usual time
Most of Tennessee is on Central Standard Time, but Kingsport 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.
Kingsport is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Kingsport sits at 36.52°N, 82.54°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Kingsport.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Kingsport it is highest at 12:14 pm today — 14 minutes after clock noon.
At 82.5°W, Kingsport 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 Kingsport today
- Sunrise
- 7:05 am
- Sunset
- 5:22 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 17 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 39 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 17 minutes in Kingsport, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours, from 14 hours 39 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 40 minutes in December.
At 36.5°N that puts Kingsport between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.