Local time · Knoxville
What time is it in Knoxville, Tennessee?
4:51:02AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 198,722
- City proper
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About this clock
Knoxville does not keep Tennessee's usual time
Most of Tennessee is on Central Standard Time, but Knoxville 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.
Knoxville is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Knoxville sits at 35.97°N, 83.95°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Knoxville.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Knoxville it is highest at 12:20 pm today — 20 minutes after clock noon.
At 83.9°W, Knoxville sits 36 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 36 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Knoxville today
- Sunrise
- 7:10 am
- Sunset
- 5:29 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 19 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 36 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 19 minutes in Knoxville, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 53 minutes, from 14 hours 36 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 43 minutes in December.
At 36.0°N that puts Knoxville between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.