Current time in Cincinnati, United States
The current local time in Cincinnati is shown below. Cincinnati observes EST in winter and EDT during daylight saving time.
What's the daylight saving status?
When are sunrise & sunset today?
What are the timezone facts?
What's the timezone history of Cincinnati?
Cincinnati uses Eastern Time alongside the rest of Ohio, observing federal DST. The Kentucky side of the metropolitan area uses Eastern Time as well, with no internal time variation across the river. The Indiana side, for the Lawrenceburg and Aurora areas immediately west, uses Eastern Time after the 2006 statewide adoption, so the entire tri-state metro shares a single offset. The federal DST schedule applies. The position around 84.5 degrees west places solar noon arriving close to 13:38 local time during DST.
What are the working hours in Cincinnati?
Cincinnati's working economy is anchored by Procter & Gamble (the global consumer-goods company has its world headquarters here with around 15,000 local employees), Kroger (the supermarket chain is headquartered here), the substantial healthcare sector around UC Health and Cincinnati Children's Hospital, and Fifth Third Bancorp. Office hours run 08:30 to 17:00 in conventional sectors. The Cincinnati Bengals NFL season and the Cincinnati Reds baseball season produce substantial visitor traffic. The Western & Southern Open tennis tournament in August is the major annual sporting event.
Where is Cincinnati?
Cincinnati sits on the northern bank of the Ohio River in south-western Ohio, immediately across from northern Kentucky. The metropolitan area holds around 2.3 million residents across the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana tri-state region. The geography is the dramatic river-valley setting: the city occupies hillsides rising sharply from the river plain, with the steep elevation change producing the distinctive downtown-to-Mount-Adams skyline. The seven main hillside neighbourhoods (the Seven Hills) anchored the 19th-century German immigrant identity. The cross-river Roebling Suspension Bridge of 1866 was the prototype for the Brooklyn Bridge.