| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00Thu | +5h | Becomes +4h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00Thu | +6h | Becomes +5h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00Thu | +8h | Becomes +9h on 1 Nov |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00Thu | +13h | Becomes +14h on 1 Nov |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00Thu | +14h | Becomes +15h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00 | ±0h | |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00 | −3h | Becomes −2h on 31 Oct |
Grand Rapids, United States runs on UTC−4. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−5 in winter, UTC−4 in summer. Next change: 1 Nov. Grand Rapids and New York currently share the same clock. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 9 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 09:00–18:00 in Grand Rapids lines up with 09:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Grand Rapids and London is 5 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 4 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 09:00–13:00 in Grand Rapids lines up with 14:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Grand Rapids and Tokyo is 13 hours. Standard working hours don't overlap at all with Tokyo, so meetings need an early or late slot on one side. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Toronto, Havana, Washington DC. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Grand Rapids.
Grand Rapids (United States) is home to roughly 200K people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:38, sunset at 19:26. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−5 in winter, UTC−4 in summer. Next change: 1 Nov. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 43° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
United States
Capital
Washington DC
Continent
North America
Time Zone
EDT · America/New_York
Coordinates
42.96°N, 85.67°W
Currency
USD ($)
Calling Code
+1
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English
Measurement System
Imperial
Did You Know?
ArtPrize, launched in 2009, turns Grand Rapids into an open gallery each autumn and awards one of the largest art prizes in the world partly by public vote — anyone can enter, anyone can vote.
The clock: Grand Rapids keeps Eastern Time. It was the first city in the United States to fluoridate its water supply, in 1945.
Grand Rapids lies at 85.7°W. Its time zone, UTC−5, is built around the 75°W meridian. The 10.7° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 43 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:43 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 103 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:43.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 15h 22m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h. The swing between them is 6h 21m. This is the latitude band where the difference between summer and winter evenings is most obvious.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Grand Rapids the sun comes up earliest on 16 June at 06:03, while the latest sunset waits until 28 June at 21:26. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Grand Rapids that civil twilight runs about 28 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 35 minutes at the solstice.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Grand Rapids, United States is America/New_York with a current UTC offset of UTC−4.
Grand Rapids has an estimated population of 200K and is located at coordinates 42.96°N, 85.67°W.
Grand Rapids gets 15h 22m of daylight on its longest day and 9h on its shortest, averaging 12h 13m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Grand Rapids falls at about 12:43 on UTC−5 standard time, because the city sits 10.7° from the meridian its zone is built on.
An Art Competition With a Public Jury: ArtPrize, launched in 2009, turns Grand Rapids into an open gallery each autumn and awards one of the largest art prizes in the world partly by public vote — anyone can enter, anyone can vote.