Wainwright in numbers
- Coordinates
- 70.6369, -160.0380
- Elevation
- 8 m above sea level
- Population
- 580
- Region
- Alaska
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 5716 km away
- Same name
- 6 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Wainwright, Alaska, United States
This page answers what time it is in Wainwright, Alaska, United States right now, in the America/Anchorage zone (−8).
Wainwright, United States
Friday, 23 October 2026
UTC−8 · America/Anchorage
Local time in Wainwright
UTC−8 · daylight saving time is active
Wainwright keeps America/Anchorage clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 10:35 AM Solar noon 2:25 PM Sunset 6:16 PM Daylight 7 h 42 min Night 16 h 18 min Civil twilight 9:25 AM – 7:26 PM
Weather in Wainwright right now
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Wainwright and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 74468
- 99782
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 Wainwright
- Wainwright Alberta, Canada
- Wainwright Oklahoma, United States
- Wainwright Alabama, United States
- Wainwright Missouri, United States
- Wainwright Ohio, United States
Nearby places
- Kuk (historical) — 5.1 km
- Ikpilgok — 8.1 km
- Sidaru (historical) — 19.5 km
- Kilimantavi (historical) — 22.4 km
- Ivishaat (historical) — 28.5 km
- Mitliktavik (historical) — 32.6 km
Local time details for Wainwright
Near Wainwright you can add Kuk (historical) and Ikpilgok, both on the same time.
Across Wainwright, 2 postal codes are recorded.
Wainwright counts hours by America/Anchorage, which stands at UTC−8. Whether daylight saving is kept: Yes.
In Wainwright today the sun is out from 10:35 AM until 6:16 PM. That comes to 7 h 42 min of daylight.
Questions and answers
- What time zone applies in Wainwright?
- In Wainwright, the applicable time zone is America/Anchorage, with an offset of −8.
- Does Wainwright move its clocks forward at any time?
- Yes.
- Tell me the sunset hour in Wainwright.
- The sunset hour is 6:16 PM.