Local time · Parkersburg
What time is it in Parkersburg, West Virginia?
4:51:31AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 28,834
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Parkersburg
Parkersburg is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Parkersburg sits at 39.26°N, 81.54°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Parkersburg.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Parkersburg it is highest at 12:10 pm today — 10 minutes after clock noon.
At 81.5°W, Parkersburg sits 26 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 26 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Parkersburg today
- Sunrise
- 7:07 am
- Sunset
- 5:13 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 5 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 56 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 5 minutes in Parkersburg, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 32 minutes, from 14 hours 56 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 24 minutes in December.
At 39.3°N that puts Parkersburg between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.