Thornton in numbers
- Coordinates
- 38.9167, -86.5014
- Elevation
- 155 m above sea level
- Region
- Indiana
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 819 km away
- Same name
- 44 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Thornton, Indiana, United States
Look up the current time in Thornton, Indiana, United States, which follows the America/Indiana/Indianapolis zone (−5).
Thornton, United States
Sunday, 15 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/Indiana/Indianapolis
Local time in Thornton
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Thornton.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:30 AM Solar noon 12:32 PM Sunset 5:34 PM Daylight 10 h 04 min Night 13 h 56 min Civil twilight 7:01 AM – 6:02 PM
Weather in Thornton right now
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Thornton and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 03285
- 19373
- 26440
- 41855
- 50479
- 60476
- 71766
- 76687
- 80241
- 95686
- 99176
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 Indiana
- Indianapolis 887 642
- Fort Wayne 260 326
- Evansville 119 943
- South Bend 101 516
- Carmel 88 713
- Bloomington 84 067
Other places named Thornton
- Thornton Colorado, United States
- Thornton New South Wales, Australia
- Thornton Illinois, United States
- Thornton Scotland, United Kingdom
- Thornton New Hampshire, United States
Same time zone — America/Indiana/Indianapolis
- Indianapolis United States
Nearby places
- Peerless — 0.9 km
- Murdock — 1.0 km
- East Oolitic — 2.2 km
- Oolitic — 2.7 km
- Needmore — 2.7 km
- Logan — 2.9 km
Thornton: clock, sun and surroundings
Peerless and Murdock lie near Thornton and keep identical time.
Mail addressed to Thornton uses 11 postal codes.
The zone applied in Thornton is America/Indiana/Indianapolis with offset UTC−5. Whether clocks shift for daylight saving: No.
Daylight in Thornton today runs from 7:30 AM to 5:34 PM. The stretch measures 10 h 04 min.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone determines the local time in Thornton?
- Local time in Thornton is determined by America/Indiana/Indianapolis, with an offset of −5.
- Does the local time in Thornton include a summer time period?
- No.
- When does light leave Thornton?
- Light leaves at 5:34 PM.