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What time is it in Brooklyn, New York, United States

Brooklyn follows Eastern Time. Clocks use UTC-5 in winter and UTC-4 while daylight saving is in force. This page is the borough’s civil time, sunrise, sunset, and weather.

Brooklyn, United States

Friday, 4 September 2026

UTC−4 · America/New_York

Local time in Brooklyn

UTC−4 · daylight saving time is active

The sun today

Sunrise 06:27 Solar noon 12:56 Sunset 19:25 Daylight 12 h 58 min Night 11 h 02 min Civil twilight 05:59 – 19:53

Weather in Brooklyn right now

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Brooklyn and its neighbours

Brownsville Flatlands Park Slope Canarsie Borough Park Sunset Park Bushwick Cypress Hills Brooklyn
Brooklyn at 40.6501, -73.9496 with the nearest towns within 5.8 km · open in OpenStreetMap

Postal codes

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.

Brooklyn in numbers

Coordinates
40.6501, -73.9496
Population
2 736 074
Region
New York
Country
United States, North America
Capital
Washington, D.C. — 328 km away
Same name
51 more places in the world share this name

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Other places named Brooklyn

Same time zone — America/New_York

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What time is it in Brooklyn

Brooklyn is a borough of New York City, in New York State. It does not keep a borough-only zone. Civil time is Eastern Time, shared with Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island. Under current United States rules the clocks spring forward in March and fall back in November. The live clock on this page already includes that change when it is in effect.

Software stores the zone as America/New_York. That identifier covers the city and much of the eastern seaboard. If a calendar offers “Eastern Time” or “New York,” that is the setting for Brooklyn. Crossing the East River or the Brooklyn Bridge does not change the hour. It only changes the borough.

Abbreviations need care. EST means Eastern Standard Time, UTC-5. EDT means Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-4. ET is the safe label when you do not want to specify which half of the year you mean. A meeting invite that says “9:00 EST” in July is usually a mistake: in July the borough is on daylight time.

One city, five boroughs, one Eastern clock

A subway ride from Borough Hall to Midtown stays inside the same civil second. So does a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. If a phone flips its zone after a tunnel, that is a device error, not a local law. Set it back to America/New_York. Neighbourhoods from Greenpoint to Coney Island read the same numerals. What changes is traffic, shade, and how much sky you can actually see.

Standard time: Eastern Standard Time, UTC-5. Daylight time: Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-4, in the warmer months under current U.S. rules. IANA name: America/New_York. Sun and weather: use Brooklyn’s coordinates, not a pin in New Jersey or upstate.

New Jersey across the harbour and most of Pennsylvania also keep Eastern Time, so a call to Newark or Philadelphia needs no conversion. A call to Chicago does: that is Central Time, one hour behind. A call to London needs the date checked as well as the hour, because evening here is night there, and the gap itself changes when either side moves its clocks. The East River is not a time-zone border. Missing the subway is.

Harbor sunrise, street-level sunset

Sunrise and sunset on this page are calculated for Brooklyn’s location and the selected date. They will be close to Manhattan’s figures and not identical, because the calculation is a point, not a skyline. Towers, brownstones, and the raised roadbeds of the bridges can hide the disk long after the listed instant, or reveal a reflection on the water a little before.

The listed sunrise assumes a clear, unobstructed horizon. The Atlantic, the harbour, and a courtyard in Fort Greene are three different views. Twilight is the practical margin for walking, cycling, and photography that only needs usable light. If you need the sun itself over the harbour, use the stamp. If you need to see the stoop, use twilight and look outside.

Day length changes a lot at this latitude. Midsummer evenings run long; midwinter afternoons end early. Those swings are astronomy. The legal clock jump in spring and autumn is a separate event. Do not mix them. A longer June evening is not “extra daylight saving.” It is a longer solar day on top of whatever offset the law currently uses.

Seasons the clock actually notices

Brooklyn has a humid climate with four seasons: cold winters, hot summers, and changeable springs and autumns. Nor’easters, summer humidity, and harbour wind all show up in how the day feels. None of them is encoded in the timezone field except the two legal clock changes. The weather reading here is the current condition for the borough. It is not a climate essay and not a marine forecast for the Narrows.

When daylight saving begins, 09:00 still says 09:00, but it is a different instant relative to UTC than it was the week before. Recurring international calls should be stored as America/New_York, not as a pair of local times copied in January. Otherwise the Brooklyn side will look as if it “moved” when it only obeyed the law.

Write “10:00 Brooklyn (Eastern Time)” or name EST or EDT for the actual date. “New York time” is understood in business and still too vague for sunrise. Use the borough when the light over the harbour is the point of the plan.

Questions and answers
Is Brooklyn on a different time from Manhattan?
No. Every New York City borough uses Eastern Time.
Does Brooklyn change clocks for daylight saving?
Yes. Under current U.S. rules the clocks move forward in March and back in November.
What does America/New_York mean on a phone?
It is the usual IANA name for this Eastern Time clock, including Brooklyn.

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