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9–17 in Boston vs UTC
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- Day after Thanksgiving Day27 Nov 2026
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About Boston
Home to roughly 692,600 residents, Boston is a notable city in United States. Its terrain rests around 43 m of elevation.
Boston keeps time on the America/New_York IANA zone, an identifier the system uses to handle every historical and future offset change without ambiguity. The temperate, northern-hemisphere setting at 42.36° latitude defines its day-length swing across the year — long summer evenings and shorter winter days.
Locally, prices are quoted in USD and the international dialing code is +1. Whether you need to plan a meeting, check a flight, or feed an AI agent Boston's local time, the data on this page is delivered in both human and JSON form.
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Questions about time in Boston
The current local time in Boston, United States is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Boston uses the IANA time zone America/New_York, currently UTC−5.
Whether Boston 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.
Boston is currently in the same time as New York.
Boston is currently 5 hours behind London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Boston are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (42.3601, -71.0589).
United States uses the USD currency and the +1 international dialing code.
Boston sits at 42.3601° N, 71.0589° W, 43 m above sea level, in United States.