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9–17 in Detroit 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
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About Detroit
Home to roughly 670,031 residents, Detroit is a substantial regional city in United States. The city sits at 192 m above sea level, close to sea level, with maritime influence on its weather.
The America/Detroit zone governs civic time in Detroit; this identifier is the canonical reference used by every operating system on Earth. Lying in the northern hemisphere within the temperate belt, the city experiences a daylight pattern and seasonal arc characteristic of its latitude (42.33°).
United States's currency is USD and its calling prefix is +1. Whether you need to plan a meeting, check a flight, or feed an AI agent Detroit's local time, the data on this page is delivered in both human and JSON form.
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Questions about time in Detroit
The current local time in Detroit, United States is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Detroit uses the IANA time zone America/Detroit, currently UTC−4.
Whether Detroit observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (America/Detroit) is the source of truth.
Detroit is currently in the same time as New York.
Detroit is currently 5 hours behind London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Detroit are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (42.3314, -83.0458).
United States uses the USD currency and the +1 international dialing code.
Detroit sits at 42.3314° N, 83.0458° W, 192 m above sea level, in United States.