What time is it in Kentucky right now?
It is 5:03 pm in Frankfort right now, Saturday, September 26, 2026. Kentucky runs on EDT at UTC-4, and on 2 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 Kentucky now
Kentucky spans 2 different clock readings across 3 IANA zones, 1 hour apart from end to end. When it is 4:03 pm in Chicago it is already 5:03 pm in Monticello, so "the time in Kentucky" is a question that needs a region attached to it.
The offset from UTC in Frankfort is UTC-4, which is 4 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time. Nine in the morning in Frankfort is 1:00 pm UTC.
Kentucky 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 Kentucky is 1 hour.
| Time zone | Time now | UTC offset | Abbreviation | Daylight saving |
|---|---|---|---|---|
America/Chicago | 4:03 pm | UTC-5 | CDT | on summer time now |
America/Kentucky/Louisville | 5:03 pm | UTC-4 | EDT | on summer time now |
America/Kentucky/Monticello | 5:03 pm | UTC-4 | EDT | on summer time now |
Does Kentucky have daylight saving time?
Kentucky does observe daylight saving, in every zone it has. 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 Kentucky 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 Kentucky.
Where Kentucky is on the map
The marker is on Frankfort, the point every sun reading and every call window on this page is worked out from.
An interactive map of Frankfort. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Frankfort on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Frankfort and major cities
Worked out at this instant rather than from a stored table, so daylight saving on either side is already in it.
| City | Time there now | Difference from Frankfort |
|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, CA | 2:03 pm | 3 hours behind Frankfort |
| New York, NY | 5:03 pm | the same time |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 6:03 pm | 1 hour ahead of Frankfort |
| London, United Kingdom | 10:03 pm | 5 hours ahead of Frankfort |
| Paris, France | 11:03 pm | 6 hours ahead of Frankfort |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 11:03 pm | 6 hours ahead of Frankfort |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 1:03 am | 8 hours ahead of Frankfort |
| Delhi, India | 2:33 am | 9 hours 30 minutes ahead of Frankfort |
| Singapore, Singapore | 5:03 am | 12 hours ahead of Frankfort |
| Tokyo, Japan | 6:03 am | 13 hours ahead of Frankfort |
| Sydney, Australia | 7:03 am | 14 hours ahead of Frankfort |
Best time to call Kentucky
A nine to five working day in Frankfort 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.
| Calling from | Gap | Window in Frankfort | Window there |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York the US East Coast | same clock | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm |
| Los Angeles the US West Coast | 3 hours ahead | 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm |
| London the United Kingdom | 5 hours behind | 9:00 am to 12:00 pm | 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm |
| Mumbai India | 9 hours 30 minutes behind | no shared working hours | try either side of the working day |
Daylight hours in Frankfort today
In Frankfort the sun rose at 7:31 am today and sets at 7:30 pm, giving 11 hours 59 minutes of daylight. The capital is losing 2 minutes 27 seconds of daylight a day at the moment, and the sun stands highest at 1:31 pm.
Solar noon in Frankfort is 1:31 pm, which is 91 minutes after clock noon. That gap is the capital sitting at 84.87 degrees west while its clock is set to America/Kentucky/Louisville, plus the equation of time, which today runs 8.7 minutes ahead of mean time, plus an hour of daylight saving for part of the year.
Moon phase over Frankfort tonight
The moon is waning gibbous tonight, 15.7 days into the current lunation, with roughly 99 percent of the disc lit. The next full moon falls on October 26, 2026 as Kentucky reads the date, at 12:11 am local. The moon phase page has the full cycle.
Current time in Kentucky cities
The 4 cities this site covers inside Kentucky, alphabetically, each with its own ticking clock and its own sunrise page.
| City | Time now | Offset | Sunrise and sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lexington-Fayette | 5:03 pm | UTC-4 | Lexington-Fayette sun times |
| Lexington | 5:03 pm | UTC-4 | Lexington sun times |
| Louisville | 5:03 pm | UTC-4 | Louisville sun times |
| Meads | 5:03 pm | UTC-4 | Meads sun times |
Every IANA time zone in Kentucky
These are the identifiers a computer uses. A program that stores America/Kentucky/Louisville rather than UTC-4 keeps working through every future rule change, which is the whole reason the database is keyed this way.
Convert Kentucky 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 Kentucky
Kentucky is a state of the United States, abbreviated KY, with its capital at Frankfort (38.20 degrees north, 84.87 degrees west). Its clock is set by 3 zones, which is a federal matter rather than a state one, although a state may opt out of daylight saving.
Upcoming dates in Kentucky
Read on Kentucky's own clock, so the day counts below start from September 26 and not from a UTC date. The list is the internationally observed calendar plus the US federal holidays, along with the state'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.
| Date | Day | What falls on it | Days away |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 12, 2026 | Monday | Columbus Day US federal holiday | 16 |
| November 1, 2026 | Sunday | Clocks go back in Chicago UTC-5 becomes UTC-6 | 36 |
| November 1, 2026 | Sunday | Clocks go back in Louisville UTC-4 becomes UTC-5 | 36 |
| November 1, 2026 | Sunday | Clocks go back in Monticello UTC-4 becomes UTC-5 | 36 |
| November 11, 2026 | Wednesday | Veterans Day US federal holiday | 46 |
| November 26, 2026 | Thursday | Thanksgiving Day US federal holiday | 61 |
| December 21, 2026 | Monday | December solstice, 3:50 pm local astronomical | 86 |
| December 25, 2026 | Friday | Christmas Day observed widely | 90 |
| December 31, 2026 | Thursday | New Year's Eve observance | 96 |
| January 1, 2027 | Friday | New Year's Day observed almost everywhere | 97 |
Sun and moon in Frankfort today
The sun is up in Frankfort for 11 hours 59 minutes today, from 7:31 am to 7:30 pm. The moon sets in Frankfort at 7:24 am and comes up again at 7:20 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 Frankfort |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 6:03 am |
| Nautical dawn | 6:34 am |
| Civil dawn | 7:05 am |
| Sunrise | 7:31 am |
| Solar noon | 1:31 pm |
| Sunset | 7:30 pm |
| Civil dusk | 7:56 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 8:27 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 8:58 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 Frankfort | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 7:05 am to 7:15 am | 0h 10m |
| Morning golden hour | 7:15 am to 8:06 am | 0h 51m |
| Evening golden hour | 6:55 pm to 7:46 pm | 0h 51m |
| Evening blue hour | 7:46 pm to 7:56 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 Frankfort |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 7:20 pm |
| Moonset | 7:24 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: Kentucky and four other places
Every hour of Saturday, September 26, 2026 in Kentucky, United States, read across 4 other places. Columns are Kentucky 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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| Kentucky 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KentuckyEDT 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 Kentucky it is working hours in London, Delhi and Singapore, but outside them in Kentucky and Los Angeles. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
Kentucky spans 3 time zones, so the clock shown is Frankfort.
Prayer times in Frankfort
Seven days from September 26, 2026, computed for Frankfort at 38.20 degrees north, 84.87 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 | 6:03 am | 7:31 am | 1:31 pm | 4:54 pm | 7:30 pm | 8:53 pm |
| Sunday September 27 | 6:04 am | 7:32 am | 1:30 pm | 4:53 pm | 7:28 pm | 8:51 pm |
| Monday September 28 | 6:05 am | 7:33 am | 1:30 pm | 4:52 pm | 7:27 pm | 8:50 pm |
| Tuesday September 29 | 6:06 am | 7:34 am | 1:30 pm | 4:51 pm | 7:25 pm | 8:48 pm |
| Wednesday September 30 | 6:07 am | 7:34 am | 1:29 pm | 4:50 pm | 7:24 pm | 8:46 pm |
| Thursday October 1 | 6:08 am | 7:35 am | 1:29 pm | 4:49 pm | 7:22 pm | 8:45 pm |
| Friday October 2 | 6:08 am | 7:36 am | 1:29 pm | 4:48 pm | 7:21 pm | 8:43 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Frankfort, 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 Frankfort
From Frankfort the qibla is 51.2 degrees on a true compass, which is northeast, or 38.8 degrees north of due east. The Kaaba is 11,229 km away, 6,978 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Frankfort 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 Frankfort 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 Frankfort 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 Kentucky
- What time is it in Kentucky right now?
- It is 5:03 pm in Frankfort as this page was served, Saturday, September 26, 2026. The clock at the top of the page ticks on from there.
- What time zone is Kentucky in?
- Kentucky uses 3 zones, from UTC-5 to UTC-4. The capital Frankfort is on America/Kentucky/Louisville at UTC-4.
- What is the UTC offset in Kentucky?
- UTC-4 in Frankfort at this instant, and between UTC-5 and UTC-4 across the whole state.
- Does Kentucky observe daylight saving time?
- Yes. The next change is November 1, 2026.
- What time does the sun set in Frankfort today?
- 7:30 pm, after a sunrise at 7:31 am and 11 hours 59 minutes of daylight.
- When is the best time to call Kentucky 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 Frankfort.
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