Sweetwater in numbers
- Coordinates
- 34.6284, -86.9158
- Elevation
- 177 m above sea level
- Region
- Alabama
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 999 km away
- Same name
- 24 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Sweetwater, Alabama, United States
This page tells you the time right now in Sweetwater, Alabama, United States, in the America/Chicago zone (−6).
Sweetwater, United States
Wednesday, 4 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Sweetwater
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Sweetwater.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:12 AM Solar noon 11:32 AM Sunset 4:53 PM Daylight 10 h 41 min Night 13 h 19 min Civil twilight 5:46 AM – 5:19 PM
Weather in Sweetwater right now
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Sweetwater and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 37874
- 73666
- 79556
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
Other places named Sweetwater
- Sweetwater Florida, United States
- Sweetwater Texas, United States
- Sweetwater Tennessee, United States
- Sweetwater Idaho, United States
- Sweetwater Oklahoma, United States
Same time zone — America/Chicago
- Chicago United States
- Houston United States
- San Antonio United States
- Dallas United States
- Fort Worth United States
- Austin United States
Nearby places
- Irvington — 1.8 km
- Mooresville — 3.2 km
- Whiteside — 3.3 km
- Belle Mina — 4.6 km
- Harris Station — 6.0 km
- Decatur — 6.7 km
Time and daylight in Sweetwater
For Irvington and Mooresville near Sweetwater, the clock reads the same.
3 distinct postal codes apply to Sweetwater.
Clocks in Sweetwater take America/Chicago as their zone, reading UTC−6. Daylight saving time applies: No.
Today at Sweetwater, the sun rises at 6:12 AM and sets at 4:53 PM. That gives 10 h 41 min of daylight.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone governs time in Sweetwater?
- Time in Sweetwater follows the America/Chicago time zone, with an offset of −6.
- Is the hour in Sweetwater changed for daylight saving at any time of year?
- No.
- What hour brings sunrise in Sweetwater?
- The hour is 6:12 AM.