What time is it in Wheeling, West Virginia?
8:54:17 AM
Friday, September 25, 2026. Eastern Daylight Time, UTC−4:00.
- Time zone
- Eastern Daylight Time
- UTC offset
- UTC−4:00
- Daylight saving
- In force now
- Population
- 26,060
Daylight saving in Wheeling
Wheeling is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Wheeling sits at 40.07°N, 80.70°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Wheeling.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Wheeling it is highest at 1:14 pm today — 74 minutes after clock noon.
At 80.7°W, Wheeling sits well toward the western edge of its zone, which is why the sun stays up later here than the clock suggests. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.
Daylight in Wheeling today
- Sunrise
- 7:13 am
- Sunset
- 7:15 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 1 minute
Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in Wheeling, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 42 minutes, from 15 hours 1 minute at the June solstice down to 9 hours 19 minutes in December.
At 40.1°N that puts Wheeling between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.