Sitka in numbers
- Coordinates
- 57.0532, -135.3310
- Elevation
- 8 m above sea level
- Population
- 8 863
- Region
- Alaska
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 4611 km away
- Same name
- 11 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Sitka, Alaska, United States
See what time it currently is in Sitka, Alaska, United States — the time zone there is America/Sitka (−8).
Sitka, United States
Sunday, 25 October 2026
UTC−8 · America/Sitka
Local time in Sitka
UTC−8 · daylight saving time is active
What the clock shows right now in Sitka.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:58 AM Solar noon 12:46 PM Sunset 5:35 PM Daylight 9 h 38 min Night 14 h 22 min Civil twilight 7:18 AM – 6:15 PM
Weather in Sitka right now
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Sitka and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 41255
- 99835
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
Other places named Sitka
- Sitka Bekes County, Hungary
- Sitka Bagmati Province, Nepal
- Sitka Arkansas, United States
- Sitka Indiana, United States
- Sitka Kansas, United States
Nearby places
- Mount Edgecumbe — 1.4 km
- Sitka City And Borough — 5.0 km
- Silver Bay (historical) — 15.1 km
- The Redoubt (historical) — 18.6 km
- Goddard — 24.4 km
- Fort Saint Michael (historical) — 27.2 km
About the time in Sitka
The name of the time zone in Sitka is America/Sitka, and it runs UTC−8. Daylight saving time: Yes.
Sunrise happens at 7:58 AM in Sitka today and sunset at 5:35 PM. That marks 9 h 38 min of daylight.
Nothing changes on the clock between Sitka and neighbouring Mount Edgecumbe or Sitka City And Borough.
Postal codes tied to Sitka number 2.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone does Sitka use?
- Sitka uses America/Sitka, which has an offset of −8.
- Does the clock in Sitka follow a summer time schedule?
- Daylight saving in Sitka: Yes.
- What are sunrise and sunset in Sitka today?
- Sunrise 7:58 AM, sunset 5:35 PM.