| 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 |
Richmond, 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. Richmond 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 Richmond lines up with 09:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Richmond 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 Richmond lines up with 14:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Richmond 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 Richmond.
Richmond (United States) is home to roughly 230K people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:04, sunset at 18:55. 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 38° 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
37.54°N, 77.44°W
Currency
USD ($)
Calling Code
+1
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English
Measurement System
Imperial
Did You Know?
Retreating Confederate forces set fire to Richmond's warehouses in April 1865 to deny supplies to the Union, and the fire destroyed much of the city they were defending. It had been the Confederate capital for four years.
The clock: Richmond keeps Eastern Time. Its state capitol was designed by Thomas Jefferson, modelled on a Roman temple in Nîmes.
Richmond lies at 77.4°W. Its time zone, UTC−5, is built around the 75°W meridian. The 2.4° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 10 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:10 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 70 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:10.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 14h 46m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 34m. The swing between them is 5h 11m. 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 Richmond the sun comes up earliest on 14 June at 05:48, while the latest sunset waits until 30 June at 20:35. 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 Richmond that civil twilight runs about 26 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 31 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 Richmond, United States is America/New_York with a current UTC offset of UTC−4.
Richmond has an estimated population of 230K and is located at coordinates 37.54°N, 77.44°W.
Richmond gets 14h 46m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 34m on its shortest, averaging 12h 12m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Richmond falls at about 12:10 on UTC−5 standard time, because the city sits 2.4° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Capital That Burned Itself: Retreating Confederate forces set fire to Richmond's warehouses in April 1865 to deny supplies to the Union, and the fire destroyed much of the city they were defending.