Local time · Portsmouth
What time is it in Portsmouth, Virginia?
4:50:51AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 96,482
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Portsmouth
Portsmouth is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Portsmouth sits at 36.86°N, 76.36°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Portsmouth.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Portsmouth it is highest at 11:49 am today — 11 minutes before clock noon.
At 76.4°W, Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth today
- Sunrise
- 6:41 am
- Sunset
- 4:57 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 16 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 41 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 16 minutes in Portsmouth, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 4 minutes, from 14 hours 41 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 38 minutes in December.
At 36.9°N that puts Portsmouth between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.