Local time · Norfolk
What time is it in Norfolk, Virginia?
4:49:34AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 231,105
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Norfolk
Norfolk is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Norfolk sits at 36.92°N, 76.24°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Norfolk.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Norfolk it is highest at 11:49 am today — 11 minutes before clock noon.
At 76.2°W, Norfolk 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 Norfolk today
- Sunrise
- 6:41 am
- Sunset
- 4:56 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 15 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 42 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 15 minutes in Norfolk, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 4 minutes, from 14 hours 42 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 37 minutes in December.
At 36.9°N that puts Norfolk between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.