What time is it in United States right now? 🇺🇸

It is 5:21 am in Washington right now, Friday, September 25, 2026. the United States runs on EDT at UTC-4, and on 28 further zones besides. Every reading on this page is computed from the IANA time zone database at the moment you loaded it, and the clocks above and below tick on from there.

Time in United States now

the United States spans 7 different clock readings across 29 IANA zones, 6 hours apart from end to end. When it is 11:21 pm in Honolulu it is already 5:21 am in New York, so "the time in United States" is a question that needs a region attached to it.

The offset from UTC in Washington is UTC-4, which is 4 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time. Nine in the morning in Washington is 1:00 pm UTC.

United States time zones in full

Each row is a zone identifier from the IANA database, its reading at this instant, its offset from UTC and whether it is currently on standard or summer time. They do not all agree: the spread across the United States is 6 hours.

Does United States have daylight saving time?

the United States does observe daylight saving, in 27 of its 29 zones. The next change is on November 1, 2026, when the clocks go back and UTC-4 becomes UTC-5. Until then the offset here is UTC-4.

Because the clocks move, the gap between United States and anywhere that does not move its own is not a constant. It shifts by an hour twice a year, and a difference memorised in one season is wrong in the other. That is the single most common source of a missed call into the United States.

Where United States is on the map

The marker is on Washington, the point every sun reading and every call window on this page is worked out from.

Time difference between Washington and major cities

Worked out at this instant rather than from a stored table, so daylight saving on either side is already in it.

Best time to call United States

A nine to five working day in Washington against a nine to five day elsewhere. The overlap column is the stretch when both desks are open, given on each side's own clock.

Daylight hours in Washington today

In Washington the sun rose at 6:59 am today and sets at 7:00 pm, giving 12 hours 2 minutes of daylight. The capital is losing 2 minutes 31 seconds of daylight a day at the moment, and the sun stands highest at 1:00 pm.

Solar noon in Washington is 1:00 pm, which is 60 minutes after clock noon. That gap is the capital sitting at 77.04 degrees west while its clock is set to America/New_York, plus the equation of time, which today runs 8.4 minutes ahead of mean time, plus an hour of daylight saving for part of the year.

Moon phase over Washington tonight

The moon is full moon tonight, 14.2 days into the current lunation, with roughly 100 percent of the disc lit. The next full moon falls on September 26, 2026 as the United States reads the date, at 12:48 pm local. The moon phase page has the full cycle.

States in United States

Each state keeps its own zone or zones, and 51 of them have a page here with a live clock of their own.

Current time in United States cities

The 282 cities this site covers inside the United States, alphabetically, each with its own ticking clock and its own sunrise page.

Every IANA time zone in United States

These are the identifiers a computer uses. A program that stores America/New_York rather than UTC-4 keeps working through every future rule change, which is the whole reason the database is keyed this way.

Convert United States time to another zone

The converter pages below take EDT against the zones people most often measure it from. Each one carries a full conversion table rather than a single answer.

Information about United States

the United States sits in North America, carries the ISO country code US and a population of about 334,910,000. Its capital Washington is at 38.91 degrees north, 77.04 degrees west, which is the coordinate every sunrise and solar noon on this page is computed from.

Upcoming dates in United States

Read on the United States's own clock, so the day counts below start from September 25 and not from a UTC date. The list is the internationally observed calendar plus the US federal holidays, along with this country's own clock changes and the next solstices and equinoxes. National days set by a country's own statute are not included, because this site carries no statute table and a guessed one would be worse than an honest gap.

Sun and moon in Washington today

The sun is up in Washington for 12 hours 2 minutes today, from 6:59 am to 7:00 pm. The moon sets in Washington at 5:45 am and comes up again at 6:24 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.

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.

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.

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.

Prayer times in Washington

Seven days from September 25, 2026, computed for Washington at 38.91 degrees north, 77.04 degrees west, on the clock of America/New_York. 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.

Dhuhr is solar noon at Washington, 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 Washington

From Washington the qibla is 56.6 degrees on a true compass, which is east-northeast, or 33.4 degrees north of due east. The Kaaba is 10,632 km away, 6,607 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.

That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Washington 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 Washington 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 Washington 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.

Questions about the time in United States

What time is it in United States right now?

It is 5:21 am in Washington as this page was served, Friday, September 25, 2026. The clock at the top of the page ticks on from there.

What time zone is United States in?

the United States uses 29 zones, from UTC-10 to UTC-4. The capital Washington is on America/New_York at UTC-4.

What is the UTC offset in United States?

UTC-4 in Washington at this instant, and between UTC-10 and UTC-4 across the whole country.

Does United States observe daylight saving time?

Yes, in some zones. The next change is November 1, 2026.

What time does the sun set in Washington today?

7:00 pm, after a sunrise at 6:59 am and 12 hours 2 minutes of daylight.

When is the best time to call United States from the United States?

Between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm New York time, which is 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in Washington.

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