Fort Payne in numbers
- Coordinates
- 34.4442, -85.7197
- Elevation
- 275 m above sea level
- Population
- 14 150
- Region
- Alabama
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 918 km away
What time is it in Fort Payne, Alabama, United States
The reading below is the local time in Fort Payne, Alabama, United States, taken from the America/Chicago zone (−5).
Fort Payne, United States
Saturday, 17 October 2026
UTC−5 · America/Chicago
Local time in Fort Payne
UTC−5 · daylight saving time is active
Local time in Fort Payne, Alabama.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:51 AM Solar noon 12:29 PM Sunset 6:08 PM Daylight 11 h 17 min Night 12 h 43 min Civil twilight 6:25 AM – 6:33 PM
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Fort Payne and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 35967
- 35968
Postal codes come from the free GeoNames dataset. Where a code is listed with a distance, it belongs to a nearby settlement — GeoNames spells that name differently from ours.
Largest cities in Alabama
- Huntsville 215 006
- Birmingham 196 357
- Montgomery 195 287
- Mobile 183 289
- Tuscaloosa 111 338
- Hoover 84 848
Same time zone — America/Chicago
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Nearby places
- Minvale — 1.8 km
- Douglas — 2.1 km
- Wills Valley — 3.8 km
- Hughes Mill — 6.5 km
- Adamsburg — 6.7 km
- Fisher Crossroads — 7.0 km
Local time details for Fort Payne
At Fort Payne the sun clears the horizon at 6:51 AM and sinks again at 6:08 PM. The gap between them is 11 h 17 min.
Neighbouring Minvale and Douglas keep the same hours as Fort Payne.
There are 2 postal codes assigned to Fort Payne.
The offset in Fort Payne is UTC−5, under the America/Chicago time zone. Daylight saving time: Yes.
Questions and answers
- How is the time zone for Fort Payne labeled?
- The time zone for Fort Payne is labeled America/Chicago, with an offset of −5.
- Is daylight saving time used in Fort Payne?
- Yes.
- Please give the sunset time for Fort Payne.
- The sun sets at 6:08 PM.