Local time · Morristown
What time is it in Morristown, 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
- 32,994
- City proper
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About this clock
Morristown does not keep Tennessee's usual time
Most of Tennessee is on Central Standard Time, but Morristown 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.
Morristown is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Morristown sits at 36.20°N, 83.30°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Morristown.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Morristown it is highest at 12:17 pm today — 17 minutes after clock noon.
At 83.3°W, Morristown sits 33 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 33 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Morristown today
- Sunrise
- 7:08 am
- Sunset
- 5:26 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 18 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 38 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 18 minutes in Morristown, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 56 minutes, from 14 hours 38 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 41 minutes in December.
At 36.2°N that puts Morristown between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.