Local time · Chester
What time is it in Chester, Virginia?
4:49:28AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 23,414
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Chester
Chester is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Chester sits at 37.35°N, 77.43°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Chester.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Chester it is highest at 11:54 am today — 6 minutes before clock noon.
At 77.4°W, Chester sits 10 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 10 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Chester today
- Sunrise
- 6:47 am
- Sunset
- 5:00 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 14 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 44 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 14 minutes in Chester, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 9 minutes, from 14 hours 44 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 35 minutes in December.
At 37.4°N that puts Chester between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.