Local time · Newport News
What time is it in Newport News, Virginia?
4:51:28AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 183,056
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Newport News
Newport News is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Newport News sits at 37.08°N, 76.52°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Newport News.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Newport News it is highest at 11:50 am today — 10 minutes before clock noon.
At 76.5°W, Newport News 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 Newport News today
- Sunrise
- 6:43 am
- Sunset
- 4:57 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 15 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 43 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 15 minutes in Newport News, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 6 minutes, from 14 hours 43 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 37 minutes in December.
At 37.1°N that puts Newport News between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.