Local time · Chesapeake
What time is it in Chesapeake, Virginia?
4:49:29AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 254,997
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Chesapeake
Chesapeake is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Chesapeake sits at 36.68°N, 76.30°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Chesapeake.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Chesapeake it is highest at 11:49 am today — 11 minutes before clock noon.
At 76.3°W, Chesapeake sits almost exactly on Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the clock and the sun agree to within a few minutes.
Daylight in Chesapeake today
- Sunrise
- 6:41 am
- Sunset
- 4:57 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 16 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 40 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 16 minutes in Chesapeake, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 1 minute, from 14 hours 40 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 39 minutes in December.
At 36.7°N that puts Chesapeake between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.