Current time in Miami, United States
The current local time in Miami is shown below. Miami observes EST in winter and EDT during daylight saving time.
Daylight saving time
Sunrise & sunset today
Timezone facts
Miami in context
Miami sits on a narrow coastal strip of southeastern Florida between the Atlantic and the Everglades, the principal city of a metropolitan region that holds around 6.3 million residents across Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties. The downtown skyline rises directly from Biscayne Bay, with Miami Beach across the bay on a barrier island reached by four causeways.
Timezone history of Miami
Miami uses Eastern Time and observes daylight saving, the same offset as New York and Atlanta but with a noticeably different daylight pattern: Florida's southern latitude produces only a modest seasonal variation in day length, so the practical case for DST is weaker here than further north. The state legislature has passed laws calling for permanent daylight time multiple times, but the change requires federal approval that has not arrived.
Working hours in Miami
Miami's working culture leans bilingual and Latin American in commercial focus: Spanish is widely used in offices, and the working day extends later than the national US norm, with dinner meetings frequently scheduled past 20:00. Banking and shipping firms along Brickell Avenue keep early hours to overlap with both New York and São Paulo. Federal holidays apply alongside the city's own seasonal closure around Spring Break in March.