early afternoon
Just past midday
Early afternoon is the period shortly after noon, roughly from about 1 PM to 3 PM.
It marks the transition from midday into the broader afternoon hours: We scheduled the meeting for early afternoon.
The phrase often indicates a time after lunch but well before evening.
- middayTwelve hours after midnight
- siestaMidday rest
- lunchMidday meal
- lunch breakMidday work hiatus
- drowsyNearly falling asleep
sunlight · warm · lazy · lazy Sunday · nap · lull · golden · golden hour · slump · quiet · quiet time · sleepy · two o'clock · three o'clock · shadow · stillness · haze · teatime
- daypartsdawn, sunrise, morning, forenoon, midmorning
- downtimebreak, breaks, nap, rest, relaxation
time of day
early afternoonearly morning
First hours of day
late night · middle of the night · predawn · dead of night · wee hours
early, afternoon, earlier, earliest, earliness, noon, after, afters