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9–17 in Atlanta vs UTC
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- Juneteenth19 Jun 2026
- Father's Day21 Jun 2026
- Independence Day (substitute day)3 Jul 2026
- Independence Day4 Jul 2026
- Labor Day7 Sept 2026
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About Atlanta
Home to roughly 498,715 residents, Atlanta is a small but established city in United States. Its terrain rests around 320 m of elevation.
Atlanta keeps time on the America/New_York IANA zone, an identifier the system uses to handle every historical and future offset change without ambiguity. Lying in the northern hemisphere within the subtropical belt, the city experiences a daylight pattern and seasonal arc characteristic of its latitude (33.75°).
United States's currency is USD and its calling prefix is +1. Beyond the live clock, every datapoint on this page — sun events, holidays, time-zone offsets — is also available as machine-readable JSON, ready for agents and integrations.
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Questions about time in Atlanta
The current local time in Atlanta, United States is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Atlanta uses the IANA time zone America/New_York, currently UTC−4.
Whether Atlanta observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (America/New_York) is the source of truth.
Atlanta is currently in the same time as New York.
Atlanta is currently 5 hours behind London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Atlanta are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (33.7490, -84.3880).
United States uses the USD currency and the +1 international dialing code.
Atlanta sits at 33.7490° N, 84.3880° W, 320 m above sea level, in United States.