Time zone
- Currently Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), UTC -4
- Standard time (Eastern Standard Time (EST), UTC -5) starts November 1, 2020
- Boston has the same time as New York.
The IANA time zone identifier for Boston is America/New_York.
Sunrise, sunset, day length and solar time for Boston
- Sunrise: 06:12AM
- Sunset: 07:20PM
- Day length: 13h 8m
- Solar noon: 12:46PM
- The current local time in Boston is 46 minutes ahead of apparent solar time.