Current time in Savannah, United States
The current local time in Savannah is shown below. Savannah 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 Savannah?
Savannah uses Eastern Time alongside the rest of Georgia. The federal DST schedule applies. The city's coastal Atlantic longitude around 81 degrees west places wall time roughly 24 minutes behind mean solar noon in standard months. The South Carolina border 25 kilometres north along the river stays on Eastern Time, with no internal time line crossing the metropolitan area or its commuter shed. The port's coordination with European, Asian, and South American shipping uses UTC for operational scheduling regardless of the local civil time.
What are the working hours in Savannah?
The port, the Gulfstream Aerospace headquarters and manufacturing facility, the Savannah College of Art and Design (around 16,000 students), and tourism centred on the historic district anchor employment. Office hours run 08:30 to 17:00. Saint Patrick's Day on 17 March is celebrated more intensively in Savannah than almost any other US city, with attendance numbers comparable to Chicago and rivalled only by Boston, producing a roughly week-long disruption to downtown traffic. The Savannah Music Festival in late March or early April is the largest cultural calendar event.
Where is Savannah?
Savannah sits on the Savannah River in coastal Georgia, around 30 kilometres inland from the Atlantic via the river's tidal estuary. The city proper holds around 145,000 residents and the wider metropolitan area roughly 415,000. The 22 historic squares laid out under the 1733 General Oglethorpe plan organise the downtown into a distinctive grid of small parks. The Port of Savannah handles the fourth-largest container volume in the United States by TEU count. Tybee Island, the city's beachfront community, lies at the mouth of the river estuary.