Brighton in numbers
- Coordinates
- 41.1747, -91.8196
- Elevation
- 230 m above sea level
- Population
- 659
- Region
- Iowa
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1282 km away
- Same name
- 58 more places in the world share this name
This page answers what time it is in Brighton, Iowa, United States right now, in the America/Chicago zone (−5).
Brighton, United States
Thursday, 29 October 2026
UTC−5 · America/Chicago
Local time in Brighton
UTC−5 · daylight saving time is active
Brighton keeps America/Chicago clock_time.
Sunrise 7:36 AM Solar noon 12:52 PM Sunset 6:08 PM Daylight 10 h 32 min Night 13 h 28 min Civil twilight 7:07 AM – 6:37 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.
Brighton contains 10 postal codes.
Standard time in Brighton comes from America/Chicago and equals UTC−5. Clocks change for daylight saving: Yes.
The sky over Brighton lightens at 7:36 AM and the sun sets at 6:08 PM. Daylight runs for 10 h 32 min today.
Anyone in Pleasant Plain or East Pleasant Plain reads the same clock as Brighton.