Time in Florida

Current time for most counties: 05:20, June 19, 2025 EDT [refresh]
Current time for some panhandle counties: 04:20, June 19, 2025 CDT [refresh]

Most of Florida is in the Eastern Time Zone (UTC−05:00, DST UTC−04:00).

The following parts of the Florida panhandle in northwest Florida are in the Central Time Zone (UTC−06:00, DST UTC−05:00):

The 2010 population of all counties that are entirely in the Central Time zone was 995,882 out of a total state population of 18,801,310 at that time, or 5.3% of the total state population.

Daylight saving time is observed throughout the state.