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9–17 in Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia
Home to roughly 1,584,064 residents, Philadelphia is a notable city in United States. The city sits at 12 m above sea level, close to sea level, with maritime influence on its weather.
Philadelphia 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 39.95° 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. This page exposes Philadelphia's exact local time alongside sunrise, sunset, public holidays, and a structured-data feed at the JSON link below — useful for spreadsheets, scheduling tools, and AI assistants alike.
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Questions about time in Philadelphia
The current local time in Philadelphia, United States is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Philadelphia uses the IANA time zone America/New_York, currently UTC−4.
Whether Philadelphia 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.
Philadelphia is currently in the same time as New York.
Philadelphia is currently 5 hours behind London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Philadelphia are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (39.9526, -75.1652).
United States uses the USD currency and the +1 international dialing code.
Philadelphia sits at 39.9526° N, 75.1652° W, 12 m above sea level, in United States.