Time zone
- Currently Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), UTC -4
- Standard time (Eastern Standard Time (EST), UTC -5) starts November 5, 2017
- Boston is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
The IANA time zone identifier for Boston is America/New_York.
Sunrise, sunset, day length and solar time for Boston
- Sunrise: 07:15AM
- Sunset: 05:41PM
- Day length: 10h 25m
- Solar noon: 12:28PM
- The current local time in Boston is 28 minutes ahead of apparent solar time.