Local time · Fredericksburg
What time is it in Fredericksburg, Virginia?
4:50:24AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 29,992
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Fredericksburg
Fredericksburg is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Fredericksburg sits at 38.30°N, 77.49°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Fredericksburg.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Fredericksburg it is highest at 11:54 am today — 6 minutes before clock noon.
At 77.5°W, Fredericksburg 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 Fredericksburg today
- Sunrise
- 6:49 am
- Sunset
- 4:59 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 10 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 50 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 10 minutes in Fredericksburg, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 20 minutes, from 14 hours 50 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 30 minutes in December.
At 38.3°N that puts Fredericksburg between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.