Local time · Charlottesville
What time is it in Charlottesville, Virginia?
4:49:47AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 44,767
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Charlottesville
Charlottesville is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Charlottesville sits at 38.04°N, 78.49°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Charlottesville.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Charlottesville it is highest at 11:58 am today — 2 minutes before clock noon.
At 78.5°W, Charlottesville sits 14 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 14 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Charlottesville today
- Sunrise
- 6:52 am
- Sunset
- 5:03 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 11 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 48 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 11 minutes in Charlottesville, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 17 minutes, from 14 hours 48 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 31 minutes in December.
At 38.0°N that puts Charlottesville between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.