Ketchikan in numbers
- Coordinates
- 55.3418, -131.6480
- Elevation
- 8 m above sea level
- Population
- 8 197
- Region
- Alaska
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 4380 km away
What time is it in Ketchikan, Alaska, United States
The clock for Ketchikan, Alaska, United States is kept here in the America/Sitka time zone (−8).
Ketchikan, United States
Thursday, 29 October 2026
UTC−8 · America/Sitka
Local time in Ketchikan
UTC−8 · daylight saving time is active
What the clock shows right now in Ketchikan.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:46 AM Solar noon 12:31 PM Sunset 5:16 PM Daylight 9 h 30 min Night 14 h 30 min Civil twilight 7:08 AM – 5:55 PM
Weather in Ketchikan right now
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Ketchikan and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 99901
- 99950
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 Alaska
- Anchorage 289 600
- Fairbanks 32 325
- Juneau 31 555
- Eagle River 24 793
- Badger 19 482
- Knik-Fairview 14 923
Nearby places
- Pennock Island — 2.0 km
- Carlanna — 2.9 km
- Saxman — 4.2 km
- Shoreline Drive — 6.1 km
- Dairy — 6.5 km
- Peninsula Point — 7.1 km
Time and daylight in Ketchikan
Daylight arrives in Ketchikan at 7:46 AM and departs at 5:16 PM. It lasts 9 h 30 min today.
Around Ketchikan, places such as Pennock Island and Carlanna use the same time.
Across Ketchikan, 2 postal codes are recorded.
Ketchikan observes America/Sitka time, currently expressed as UTC−8. Daylight saving time here: Yes.
Questions and answers
- What zone is Ketchikan in for local time?
- For local time, Ketchikan is in America/Sitka, with an offset of −8.
- Does the clock in Ketchikan follow a summer time schedule?
- Daylight saving in Ketchikan: Yes.
- Tell me the sunrise hour in Ketchikan.
- The sunrise hour is 7:46 AM.