Time in Richmond, Virginia, United States

Time zone: EDT (UTC/GMT -04:00) — America/New_York

Local time here is EDT, which sits 4 hours behind UTC, written UTC-04:00. The canonical zone name is America/New_York, and that is what to pick from a time zone dropdown.

Daylight saving applies here. Clocks next move back 1 hour on Sunday, 01 November 2026, putting Richmond on EST and changing its gap to every other zone listed below.

Richmond is one of 419 United States cities here, spread over 10 time zones; do not assume the rest of the country reads the same clock.

Current gap between Richmond and cities people most often need to coordinate with. These figures already account for daylight saving where it applies.

Where the two working days actually meet, expressed in Richmond local time.

No shared working window exists with Dubai, Mumbai, Shanghai or Tokyo, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.

Same zone, same time — each of these sits on America/New_York alongside Richmond, including through any clock change.

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