Current time in Louisville, Kentucky right now
It is 4:16 pm in Louisville, Kentucky 🇺🇸 right now, on Saturday, September 26, 2026. The city keeps America/Kentucky/Louisville, which is EDT at UTC-4, so Louisville is 4 hours behind of UTC, where it is 8:16 pm. The sun rose in Louisville at 7:34 am and sets at 7:34 pm, which is 11 hours 59 minutes of daylight.
What time is it in Louisville right now?
The time in Louisville, Kentucky is 4:16 pm, 16:16 on a 24 hour clock, on Saturday September 26, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the America/Kentucky/Louisville rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.
Louisville sits at 38.25 degrees north and 85.76 degrees west, at a middle latitude and 4,254 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 60.0 degrees west, and the city itself is 25.8 degrees west of that line. Those 25.8 degrees are worth 103 minutes 2 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 1:34 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Louisville time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Louisville, Kentucky is America/Kentucky/Louisville. Right now it is running at UTC-4 and the abbreviation in force is EDT. Louisville is on summer time at the moment, which is why the offset reads UTC-4 rather than the UTC-5 it keeps in winter.
Daylight hours in Louisville today
The sun rose in Louisville at 7:34 am and sets at 7:34 pm, which is 11 hours 59 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Louisville, is at 1:34 pm, which is 94 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -1.45 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 50.3 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.
| Reading | Time in Louisville |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 7:34 am |
| Sunset | 7:34 pm |
| Solar noon | 1:34 pm |
| Day length | 11 hours 59 minutes |
| Evening golden hour | 6:59 pm to 7:50 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 8:00 pm |
The full month by month picture for this city, the extremes of the year and every twilight band are on the sunrise and sunset page for Louisville, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Louisville is on the map
The marker sits at the coordinates this whole page is computed from, so the sun times, the distances and the solar noon above all belong to this exact point rather than to the wider metropolitan area.
An interactive map of Louisville. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Louisville on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Louisville and major cities
Every row below is computed at this instant, so daylight saving on either side is already in it. A positive figure means that city's clock reads later than Louisville.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Louisville |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 1:16 pm | -3 | 3 hours behind of Louisville |
| Chicago, Illinois | 3:16 pm | -1 | 1 hour behind of Louisville |
| New York, New York | 4:16 pm | 0 | same time as Louisville |
| Toronto, Canada | 4:16 pm | 0 | same time as Louisville |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 5:16 pm | +1 | 1 hour ahead of Louisville |
| London, United Kingdom | 9:16 pm | +5 | 5 hours ahead of Louisville |
| Paris, France | 10:16 pm | +6 | 6 hours ahead of Louisville |
| Berlin, Germany | 10:16 pm | +6 | 6 hours ahead of Louisville |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 10:16 pm | +6 | 6 hours ahead of Louisville |
| Moscow, Russia | 11:16 pm | +7 | 7 hours ahead of Louisville |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 12:16 am | +8 | 8 hours ahead of Louisville |
| Delhi, India | 1:46 am | +9:30 | 9 hours 30 minutes ahead of Louisville |
| Singapore, Singapore | 4:16 am | +12 | 12 hours ahead of Louisville |
| Hong Kong, China | 4:16 am | +12 | 12 hours ahead of Louisville |
| Tokyo, Japan | 5:16 am | +13 | 13 hours ahead of Louisville |
| Sydney, Australia | 6:16 am | +14 | 14 hours ahead of Louisville |
Best time to call Louisville
Treating a working day as 9am to 6pm on both sides, this is the window the two cities genuinely share. Some of these pairs have no shared working hour at all, which is worth knowing before a meeting is proposed.
| Calling from | Gap | Window in Louisville | Their local time |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 0 | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm |
| Los Angeles | -3 | 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 3:00 pm |
| London | +5 | 9:00 am to 1:00 pm | 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm |
| Delhi | +9:30 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
| Sydney | +14 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
Other cities in United States
We cover 415 cities in United States. These are the ones nearest to Louisville, with the time on their clocks right now.
| City | State | Local time | Offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lexington | Kentucky | 4:16 pm | UTC-4 |
| Lexington-Fayette | Kentucky | 4:16 pm | UTC-4 |
| Bloomington | Indiana | 4:16 pm | UTC-4 |
| Cincinnati | Ohio | 4:16 pm | UTC-4 |
| Evansville | Indiana | 3:16 pm | UTC-5 |
| Indianapolis | Indiana | 4:16 pm | UTC-4 |
| Dayton | Ohio | 4:16 pm | UTC-4 |
| Clarksville | Tennessee | 3:16 pm | UTC-5 |
| Nashville | Tennessee | 3:16 pm | UTC-5 |
| Meads | Kentucky | 4:16 pm | UTC-4 |
| Murfreesboro | Tennessee | 3:16 pm | UTC-5 |
| Champaign | Illinois | 3:16 pm | UTC-5 |
| Knoxville | Tennessee | 4:16 pm | UTC-4 |
| Columbus | Ohio | 4:16 pm | UTC-4 |
| Fort Wayne | Indiana | 4:16 pm | UTC-4 |
| East Chattanooga | Tennessee | 4:16 pm | UTC-4 |
Cities on America/Kentucky/Louisville time
Louisville is the only city in our catalogue on America/Kentucky/Louisville. Other cities may share its UTC-4 offset today without sharing its rules, which is the distinction that matters the moment a clock change comes round.
Moon phase over Louisville tonight
The moon is a waning gibbous tonight, 15.7 days into its cycle and about 99% lit. The next full moon falls on October 26, 2026 at 12:11 am Louisville time, and the next new moon on October 10, 2026 at 11:49 am. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Louisville clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Louisville
The next change is on Sunday, November 1, 2026, 35 days from now, when the clocks in Louisville go back 1 hour at 1:59 am and the offset moves from UTC-4 to UTC-5.
Two things follow from that. Any standing call with Louisville shifts by an hour on that date unless the other side moves the same weekend, and every offset printed on this page is the offset for today rather than a fixed property of the city.
How far Louisville is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Louisville is Lexington, Kentucky at 112 km, and the furthest is Mandurah, Australia at 17,972 km, which is 90% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lexington, Kentucky | 112 | 70 | east | 4:16 pm |
| Lexington-Fayette, Kentucky | 116 | 72 | east | 4:16 pm |
| Bloomington, Indiana | 121 | 75 | north west | 4:16 pm |
| Cincinnati, Ohio | 144 | 89 | north east | 4:16 pm |
| Evansville, Indiana | 162 | 100 | west | 3:16 pm |
| Indianapolis, Indiana | 172 | 107 | north | 4:16 pm |
| Dayton, Ohio | 215 | 134 | north east | 4:16 pm |
| Clarksville, Tennessee | 238 | 148 | south west | 3:16 pm |
| Nashville, Tennessee | 249 | 155 | south | 3:16 pm |
| Meads, Kentucky | 267 | 166 | east | 4:16 pm |
The antipode of Louisville
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Louisville, Kentucky and you come out at 38.25 degrees south, 94.24 degrees east. That point is in the Indian Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Mandurah, Australia, 2,043 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 4:16 am on Sunday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 38.25 degrees north becomes 38.25 degrees south, and 85.76 degrees west becomes 94.24 degrees east. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Louisville is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC+8, roughly twelve hours from Louisville, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Louisville
Today the sun rises in Louisville at 7:34 am and sets at 7:34 pm, giving 11 hours 59 minutes of daylight. The dedicated page for this city carries the month by month table, the longest and shortest days of 2026, the golden and blue hour bands at both ends of the day, and all three twilight stages: sunrise and sunset times in Louisville.
Weather in Louisville right now
19°C (65°F), fair
| Conditions | Fair |
|---|---|
| Wind | 11 km/h (7 mph) from the ENE, a light breeze |
| Humidity | 57% |
| Cloud cover | 16% |
| Pressure | 1021 hPa |
| Rain in the next hour | none forecast |
Reading taken 5 hours ago, local time 11 AM in Louisville.
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Hourly forecast for Louisville
The next 22 hours, in Louisville local time. Temperatures are given in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
- 4 PM 24°C 76°F Fair 7 km/h
- 5 PM 24°C 76°F Fair 9 km/h
- 6 PM 24°C 75°F Fair 12 km/h
- 7 PM 22°C 72°F Fair 10 km/h
- 8 PM 20°C 68°F Fair 11 km/h
- 9 PM 19°C 66°F Fair 11 km/h
- 10 PM 18°C 64°F Fair 10 km/h
- 11 PM 17°C 62°F Fair 8 km/h
- 12 AM 16°C 60°F Clear sky 8 km/h
- 1 AM 15°C 59°F Clear sky 8 km/h
- 2 AM 15°C 58°F Clear sky 9 km/h
- 3 AM 14°C 57°F Clear sky 8 km/h
- 4 AM 14°C 56°F Clear sky 7 km/h
- 5 AM 13°C 56°F Clear sky 7 km/h
- 6 AM 13°C 55°F Clear sky 7 km/h
- 7 AM 12°C 54°F Clear sky 8 km/h
- 8 AM 12°C 53°F Clear sky 9 km/h
- 9 AM 13°C 56°F Clear sky 8 km/h
- 10 AM 15°C 60°F Clear sky 7 km/h
- 11 AM 18°C 64°F Clear sky 7 km/h
- 12 PM 20°C 67°F Clear sky 7 km/h
- 1 PM 22°C 71°F Clear sky 8 km/h
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7-day forecast for Louisville
| Day | High | Low | Conditions | Rain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 26 Sep | 24°C / 76°F | 17°C / 62°F | Fair | 0 mm |
| Sun 27 Sep | 24°C / 76°F | 12°C / 53°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
| Mon 28 Sep | 25°C / 77°F | 12°C / 54°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
| Tue 29 Sep | 25°C / 77°F | 13°C / 56°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
| Wed 30 Sep | 21°C / 70°F | 18°C / 64°F | Cloudy | 0.6 mm |
| Thu 1 Oct | 29°C / 85°F | 21°C / 69°F | Partly cloudy | 0 mm |
| Fri 2 Oct | 30°C / 86°F | 22°C / 72°F | Rain | 15.8 mm |
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Sun and moon in Louisville today
The sun is up in Louisville for 11 hours 59 minutes today, from 7:34 am to 7:34 pm. The moon sets in Louisville at 7:28 am and comes up again at 7:24 pm. The next phase is the full moon on September 26, 2026. The moon is full, or as near to it as makes no difference, and the whole of the face turned towards us is lit.
| Sun | Time in Louisville |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 6:06 am |
| Nautical dawn | 6:37 am |
| Civil dawn | 7:08 am |
| Sunrise | 7:34 am |
| Solar noon | 1:34 pm |
| Sunset | 7:34 pm |
| Civil dusk | 8:00 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 8:31 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 9:02 pm |
Twilight is graded by how far the sun has dropped below the horizon. Civil twilight ends six degrees down, which is roughly the point at which you need a light to read outside. Nautical twilight ends at twelve degrees, when the horizon at sea stops being usable for a sextant sight. Astronomical twilight ends at eighteen degrees, which is full darkness for an observer.
| Light band | Time in Louisville | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 7:08 am to 7:18 am | 0h 10m |
| Morning golden hour | 7:18 am to 8:09 am | 0h 51m |
| Evening golden hour | 6:59 pm to 7:50 pm | 0h 51m |
| Evening blue hour | 7:50 pm to 8:00 pm | 0h 10m |
Golden hour is the stretch with the sun between six degrees above the horizon and four below it, and blue hour runs from there down to six degrees below. Neither is literally an hour: each is as long as the sun takes to cross those few degrees, which is minutes near the equator and can be most of the evening at high latitude.
| Moon | Reading in Louisville |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 7:24 pm |
| Moonset | 7:28 am |
| Phase | waning gibbous, waxing |
| Illumination | 100% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 15.5 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 379,600 km |
Moonrise and moonset are computed to the moment the moon's upper edge touches a flat horizon, allowing for refraction, for the size of the disc and for the moon's parallax, which together put the centre of the moon at 0.125 degrees above the horizon at the instant it rises. That is a different horizon from the one sunrise uses, and it is why a moonrise time cannot be worked out with a sunrise formula.
Meeting planner: Louisville and four other places
Every hour of Saturday, September 26, 2026 in Louisville, KY, read across 4 other places. Columns are Louisville local hours. A shaded cell is an hour inside 9 to 5 there, and a solid one is an hour inside 9 to 5 everywhere in the grid.
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| Louisville local hour | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LouisvilleEDT UTC-4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| Los AngelesPDT UTC-7 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| LondonBST UTC+1 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 0+1 | 1+1 | 2+1 | 3+1 | 4+1 |
| DelhiIST UTC+5:30 | 9:30 | 10:30 | 11:30 | 12:30 | 13:30 | 14:30 | 15:30 | 16:30 | 17:30 | 18:30 | 19:30 | 20:30 | 21:30 | 22:30 | 23:30 | 0:30+1 | 1:30+1 | 2:30+1 | 3:30+1 | 4:30+1 | 5:30+1 | 6:30+1 | 7:30+1 | 8:30+1 |
| SingaporeSGT UTC+8 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 0+1 | 1+1 | 2+1 | 3+1 | 4+1 | 5+1 | 6+1 | 7+1 | 8+1 | 9+1 | 10+1 | 11+1 |
No hour on Saturday, September 26, 2026 is inside 9 to 5 in all 5 places, so nothing is highlighted as a shared working hour. Los Angeles and Singapore are 15 hours apart, which is more than the eight hour working day leaves room for. The closest is 3 of 5: from 4:00 am in Louisville it is working hours in London, Delhi and Singapore, but outside them in Louisville and Los Angeles. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
Prayer times in Louisville
Seven days from September 26, 2026, computed for Louisville, KY at 38.25 degrees north, 85.76 degrees west, on the clock of America/Kentucky/Louisville. The method is Muslim World League (Muslim World League, Mecca), which puts Fajr at 18.0 degrees below the horizon and Isha at 17.0 degrees. Asr uses the Standard shadow ratio of 1, which is the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali position.
| Date | Fajr | Sunrise | Dhuhr | Asr | Maghrib | Isha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday September 26 | 6:06 am | 7:34 am | 1:34 pm | 4:58 pm | 7:34 pm | 8:56 pm |
| Sunday September 27 | 6:07 am | 7:35 am | 1:34 pm | 4:57 pm | 7:32 pm | 8:55 pm |
| Monday September 28 | 6:08 am | 7:36 am | 1:34 pm | 4:56 pm | 7:30 pm | 8:53 pm |
| Tuesday September 29 | 6:09 am | 7:37 am | 1:33 pm | 4:54 pm | 7:29 pm | 8:51 pm |
| Wednesday September 30 | 6:10 am | 7:38 am | 1:33 pm | 4:53 pm | 7:27 pm | 8:50 pm |
| Thursday October 1 | 6:11 am | 7:39 am | 1:33 pm | 4:52 pm | 7:26 pm | 8:48 pm |
| Friday October 2 | 6:12 am | 7:40 am | 1:32 pm | 4:51 pm | 7:24 pm | 8:47 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Louisville, KY, the instant the Sun crosses the local meridian, so it moves with longitude inside the time zone and with the equation of time through the year rather than sitting at a fixed clock reading. Sunrise and Maghrib are the standard refracted horizon, the same 0.833 degrees every almanac uses. Every figure above is computed from the Sun's position for this exact coordinate; none of it is copied from a table.
Different methods disagree, and that is expected rather than an error. Fajr under ISNA at 15 degrees comes later than Fajr under Egyptian General Authority of Survey at 19.5 degrees, by twenty minutes or more depending on latitude and season. Follow whichever your local mosque follows.
Qibla direction from Louisville
From Louisville, KY the qibla is 50.6 degrees on a true compass, which is northeast, or 39.4 degrees north of due east. The Kaaba is 11,286 km away, 7,013 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Louisville, KY to 21.4225 degrees north, 39.8262 degrees east, which is the Kaaba inside Masjid al-Haram. That reads as a surprise on a flat map, where Mecca sits well to the southeast. A flat map is not the Earth. The shortest path from Louisville to Mecca is a great circle that runs northeast over the Atlantic and Europe, and the qibla is the bearing of that path where you stand.
The bearing is measured from true north, not magnetic north. A magnetic compass points at the magnetic pole, and the difference between the two can be anything from nothing to more than twenty degrees depending where you are, so check your compass reading against magnetic declination for Louisville, KY before you use it. A phone compass set to true north, or the shadow of a vertical stick at local solar noon, avoids the problem entirely.
Put a Louisville clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in Louisville, KY, ready to paste into any page that accepts HTML. It reads America/Kentucky/Louisville from the time zone database, so it stays right when Louisville changes its clocks, and it shows EDT to every visitor wherever they are reading from. It is a plain iframe: no account, no script to install, nothing to pay.
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Louisville time now: common questions
- What time is it in Louisville, Kentucky right now?
- 4:16 pm on Saturday September 26, 2026. Louisville runs on EDT, UTC-4.
- What time zone is Louisville in?
- America/Kentucky/Louisville, currently EDT at UTC-4. 1 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for Louisville?
- UTC-4 at this instant. It alternates between UTC-5 and UTC-4 across the year.
- Does Louisville observe daylight saving time?
- Yes. The next change is November 1, 2026, when the clocks go back.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Louisville of New York?
- Louisville is the same time of New York, where it is 4:16 pm right now.
- What time does the sun set in Louisville today?
- 7:34 pm, after a sunrise at 7:34 am and 11 hours 59 minutes of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Louisville?
- 38.25 degrees south, 94.24 degrees east, in the Indian Ocean.
- When is the best time to call Louisville from London?
- Between 9:00 am and 1:00 pm in Louisville, which is 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm in London.
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