Local time · Morgantown
What time is it in Morgantown, West Virginia?
4:51:11AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 30,490
- City proper
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Daylight saving in Morgantown
Morgantown is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Morgantown sits at 39.64°N, 79.95°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Morgantown.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Morgantown it is highest at 12:04 pm today — 4 minutes after clock noon.
At 79.9°W, Morgantown sits 20 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 20 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Morgantown today
- Sunrise
- 7:02 am
- Sunset
- 5:05 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 4 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 59 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 4 minutes in Morgantown, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 37 minutes, from 14 hours 59 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 22 minutes in December.
At 39.6°N that puts Morgantown between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.