Essex in numbers
- Coordinates
- 41.3534, -72.3906
- Elevation
- 17 m above sea level
- Region
- Connecticut
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 480 km away
- Same name
- 29 more places in the world share this name
Current local time for Essex, Connecticut, United States is listed here, in the America/New_York time zone (−5).
Essex, United States
Monday, 9 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Essex
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Essex.
Sunrise 6:32 AM Solar noon 11:35 AM Sunset 4:37 PM Daylight 10 h 06 min Night 13 h 54 min Civil twilight 6:02 AM – 5:07 PM
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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.
Mail addressed to Essex uses 10 postal codes.
Essex is on America/New_York time, which corresponds to UTC−5. Whether the area observes daylight saving: No.
In Essex today the sun is out from 6:32 AM until 4:37 PM. That comes to 10 h 06 min of daylight.
Close to Essex, the towns of Essex Village and Centerbrook show the same time.