Sanibel in numbers
- Coordinates
- 26.4490, -82.0223
- Elevation
- 1 m above sea level
- Population
- 7 236
- Region
- Florida
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1460 km away
What time is it in Sanibel, Florida, United States
See what time it currently is in Sanibel, Florida, United States — the time zone there is America/New_York (−4).
Sanibel, United States
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC−4 · America/New_York
Local time in Sanibel
UTC−4 · daylight saving time is active
What the clock shows right now in Sanibel.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:29 AM Solar noon 1:15 PM Sunset 7:01 PM Daylight 11 h 32 min Night 12 h 28 min Civil twilight 7:05 AM – 7:24 PM
Weather in Sanibel right now
Loading the current weather…
Weather data by Open-Meteo, updated every 30 minutes.
Sanibel and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 33957
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.
Largest cities in Florida
- Jacksonville 1 009 833
- Miami 487 014
- Tampa 414 547
- Orlando 334 854
- St. Petersburg 257 083
- Hialeah 237 069
Same time zone — America/New_York
- New York City United States
- Brooklyn United States
- Queens United States
- Philadelphia United States
- Manhattan United States
- The Bronx United States
Nearby places
- Punta Rassa — 4.4 km
- Ybel — 5.6 km
- Fort Myers Beach — 7.2 km
- Truckland — 7.8 km
- Saint James City — 7.8 km
- Shangri La Mobile Home Park — 8.1 km
Time and daylight in Sanibel
Sunrise comes to Sanibel at 7:29 AM and sunset at 7:01 PM today. Together that makes 11 h 32 min of light.
Punta Rassa and Ybel sit close to Sanibel and run on the same clock.
Mail addressed to Sanibel uses 1 postal code.
Sanibel marks time with America/New_York at an offset of UTC−4. Does the area change clocks seasonally? Yes.
Questions and answers
- What time zone corresponds to Sanibel?
- America/New_York corresponds to Sanibel and has an offset of −4.
- Does Sanibel follow daylight saving time?
- Yes.
- I need the sunrise and sunset times for Sanibel.
- They are 7:29 AM and 7:01 PM.