| 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 |
Virginia Beach, 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. Virginia Beach 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 Virginia Beach lines up with 09:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Virginia Beach 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 Virginia Beach lines up with 14:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Virginia Beach 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 Virginia Beach.
Virginia Beach (United States) is home to roughly 460K people. Today brings about 11.9 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:58, sunset at 18:49. 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 37° 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
36.85°N, 75.98°W
Currency
USD ($)
Calling Code
+1
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English
Measurement System
Imperial
Did You Know?
Virginia Beach holds a Guinness record as the longest pleasure beach in the world, with about 5 km of resort strip along roughly 56 km of total shoreline. Its boardwalk runs 4.8 km.
The clock: Virginia Beach keeps Eastern Time. The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel nearby runs 28 km and dips into two mile-long tunnels so shipping can pass overhead.
Virginia Beach lies at 76.0°W. Its time zone, UTC−5, is built around the 75°W meridian. The two very nearly coincide: solar noon — the moment the sun is highest — falls at about 12:04, which is as close to true solar time as a zone this wide can get. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 64 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:04.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 14h 41m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 38m. The swing between them is 5h 3m. 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 Virginia Beach the sun comes up earliest on 14 June at 05:44, while the latest sunset waits until 30 June at 20:27. 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 Virginia Beach 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 Virginia Beach, United States is America/New_York with a current UTC offset of UTC−4.
Virginia Beach has an estimated population of 460K and is located at coordinates 36.85°N, 75.98°W.
Virginia Beach gets 14h 41m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 38m on its shortest, averaging 12h 11m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Virginia Beach falls at about 12:04 on UTC−5 standard time, because the city sits 1.0° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The Longest Pleasure Beach: Virginia Beach holds a Guinness record as the longest pleasure beach in the world, with about 5 km of resort strip along roughly 56 km of total shoreline. Its boardwalk runs 4.8 km.