Jamaica in numbers
- Coordinates
- 41.8461, -94.3097
- Elevation
- 315 m above sea level
- Population
- 219
- Region
- Iowa
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1497 km away
- Same name
- 33 more places in the world share this name
The clock for Jamaica, Iowa, United States is kept here in the America/Chicago time zone (−6).
Jamaica, United States
Tuesday, 3 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Jamaica
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Jamaica keeps America/Chicago clock_time.
Sunrise 6:53 AM Solar noon 12:02 PM Sunset 5:11 PM Daylight 10 h 18 min Night 13 h 42 min Civil twilight 6:24 AM – 5:40 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.
Nearby places that share Jamaica's clock include Herndon and Dawson.
Coverage of Jamaica by postal code amounts to 12 entries.
The zone applied in Jamaica is America/Chicago with offset UTC−6. Whether clocks shift for daylight saving: No.
Sun-up in Jamaica is 6:53 AM today and sun-down is 5:11 PM. That gap holds 10 h 18 min of daylight.