Time in Kentucky

  Eastern Time Zone

  Central Time Zone

About 60% of Kentucky lies in the Eastern Time Zone, with the rest in the Central Time Zone, as follows:^[1]

Central boundary counties Breckinridge Grayson Hart Green Adair Russell Monroe

Eastern boundary counties Meade Hardin LaRue Taylor Casey Pulaski Wayne

Counties to the north and east of this boundary are in the Eastern Time Zone, while counties to the south and west are in the Central Time Zone.

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Kentucky is covered by four time zones, columns marked "*" contain the data from the file zone.tab:

c.c.*	coordinates*	TZ*	comments*	UTC offset	UTC offset DST	Note
US	[phone]	America/New_York	Eastern Time
US	[phone]	America/Chicago	Central Time
US	[phone]	America/Kentucky/Louisville	Eastern Time - Kentucky - Louisville area
US	[phone]	America/Kentucky/Monticello	Eastern Time - Kentucky - Wayne County

Clocks

The Floral Clock in Frankfort and the Louisville Clock are individual working clocks in Kentucky that are attractions in their own right.

See also

• Time in the United States

References

1. 79 counties, totaling 24679.526 sq mi are in ET, while 40 counties, totaling 15473.36 sq mi are in CT, based on individual Wikipedia county articles as of 2012-05-21.