Alden in numbers
- Coordinates
- 38.2422, -98.3120
- Elevation
- 512 m above sea level
- Population
- 146
- Region
- Kansas
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1847 km away
- Same name
- 14 more places in the world share this name
Watch the current local time in Alden, Kansas, United States, running on the America/Chicago time zone (−6).
Alden, United States
Friday, 6 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Alden
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Alden keeps America/Chicago clock_time.
Sunrise 7:06 AM Solar noon 12:18 PM Sunset 5:30 PM Daylight 10 h 24 min Night 13 h 36 min Civil twilight 6:38 AM – 5:58 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.
Time in Alden is measured by America/Chicago, at UTC−6. Whether clocks are moved for summer: No.
Sunrise today is 7:06 AM in Alden, with sunset at 5:30 PM. That works out to 10 h 24 min of light.
The same local time applies in Alden, Kilbourns Corner and Sterling.
Every address in Alden sits within one of 6 postal codes.