Fort Lauderdale in numbers
- Coordinates
- 26.1223, -80.1434
- Population
- 183 146
- Region
- Florida
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1450 km away
This page shows what the clocks read right now in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States, in the America/New_York zone (−5).
Fort Lauderdale, United States
Sunday, 8 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Fort Lauderdale
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Fort Lauderdale.
Sunrise 6:35 AM Solar noon 12:06 PM Sunset 5:36 PM Daylight 11 h 01 min Night 12 h 59 min Civil twilight 6:11 AM – 6:00 PM
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Postal codes come from the free GeoNames dataset. Where a code is listed with a distance, it belongs to a nearby settlement — GeoNames spells that name differently from ours.
Postal codes valid in Fort Lauderdale number 12.
Fort Lauderdale keeps time under America/New_York. That places it at UTC−5, with daylight saving time No.
First light in Fort Lauderdale comes at 6:35 AM today; darkness returns after 5:36 PM. The day gives 11 h 01 min of light.
Fort Lauderdale shares one clock with the nearby places Hitching Post Mobile Home Park and Colony Mobile Home Park.