Current time in Knoxville, United States
The current local time in Knoxville is shown below. Knoxville 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?
- Timezone
- America/New_York
- Standard abbreviation
- EST
- DST abbreviation
- EDT
- Observes daylight saving
- Yes
- Country
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Knoxville?
Knoxville uses Eastern Time, in the eastern half of Tennessee that operates on this offset. The state splits between Eastern (Knoxville, Chattanooga) and Central (Nashville, Memphis) zones along an irregular boundary that broadly follows the Cumberland Plateau. The federal DST schedule applies. The city's longitude around 83.9 degrees west sits well west of the Eastern Standard Time meridian, leaving wall time around 35 minutes behind mean solar noon and producing late-feeling sunsets in summer that extend past 21:00.
What are the working hours in Knoxville?
The university, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the wider Department of Energy research presence, healthcare anchored by the University of Tennessee Medical Center, and a substantial logistics sector along the I-40 corridor anchor employment. Office hours run 08:00 to 17:00. The Sunsphere and the World's Fair Park retain the legacy of the 1982 World's Fair held in the city. SEC football Saturdays at Neyland Stadium reshape autumn weekend traffic. The Dogwood Arts Festival in April and the Big Ears Festival in late March are the largest local cultural events.
Where is Knoxville?
Knoxville sits in eastern Tennessee at the confluence of the Holston and French Broad rivers, where they form the Tennessee River. The city proper holds around 195,000 residents and the wider metropolitan area roughly 900,000. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the most visited national park in the United States, lies around 50 kilometres south-east. The University of Tennessee, with around 33,000 students, dominates the central campus area immediately west of downtown. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory, around 35 kilometres west, anchors a substantial federal research employment cluster.