The Blades in numbers
- Coordinates
- 39.1168, -75.5288
- Elevation
- 13 m above sea level
- Region
- Delaware
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 133 km away
What time is it in The Blades, Delaware, United States
Use this page to see what time it is in The Blades, Delaware, United States — the America/New_York zone applies there (−5).
The Blades, United States
Wednesday, 4 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in The Blades
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
The Blades keeps America/New_York clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:34 AM Solar noon 11:47 AM Sunset 5:00 PM Daylight 10 h 26 min Night 13 h 34 min Civil twilight 6:06 AM – 5:28 PM
Weather in The Blades right now
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The Blades and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 19902 Dover Afb — 4.2 km away
- 19906 Dover — 4.5 km away
- 19905 Dover — 4.6 km away
- 19962 Magnolia — 5.1 km away
- 19901 Dover — 5.3 km away
- 19980 Woodside — 6.1 km away
- 19934 Camden Wyoming — 6.2 km away
- 19903 Dover — 7.0 km away
- 19904 Dover — 7.7 km away
- 19961 Little Creek — 8.9 km away
- 19979 Viola — 9.1 km away
- 19946 Frederica — 11.2 km away
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 Delaware
- Wilmington 70 898
- Dover 39 403
- Newark 33 817
- Middletown 20 372
- Bear 19 371
- Brookside 14 353
Same time zone — America/New_York
- New York City United States
- Brooklyn United States
- Queens United States
- Philadelphia United States
- Manhattan United States
- The Bronx United States
Nearby places
- Carter Development — 0.3 km
- Greenview — 0.4 km
- Royal Grant — 0.6 km
- Fairfield Farms — 0.8 km
- Chaplecroft — 1.0 km
- Camden — 1.2 km
Time and daylight in The Blades
At The Blades the sun clears the horizon at 6:34 AM and sinks again at 5:00 PM. The gap between them is 10 h 26 min.
The same hours are kept in The Blades and in nearby Carter Development and Greenview.
Within The Blades, postal codes number 12.
The Blades observes America/New_York time, currently expressed as UTC−5. Daylight saving time here: No.
Questions and answers
- What is The Blades's time zone?
- The Blades's time zone is America/New_York, with an offset of −5.
- Does the local time in The Blades change with daylight saving?
- No.
- At what hour does the sun rise in The Blades?
- At 6:34 AM.