Boston in numbers
- Coordinates
- 37.7876, -85.6727
- Elevation
- 140 m above sea level
- Population
- 266
- Region
- Kentucky
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 763 km away
- Same name
- 49 more places in the world share this name
Watch the current local time in Boston, Kentucky, United States, running on the America/New_York time zone (−5).
Boston, United States
Monday, 2 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Boston
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Boston keeps America/New_York clock_time.
Sunrise 7:10 AM Solar noon 12:27 PM Sunset 5:45 PM Daylight 10 h 35 min Night 13 h 25 min Civil twilight 6:43 AM – 6:12 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.
Boston is split into 12 postal code areas.
The zone applied in Boston is America/New_York with offset UTC−5. Whether clocks shift for daylight saving: No.
The sun rises today at 7:10 AM in Boston and sets at 5:45 PM. Daylight covers 10 h 35 min.
For Younger Creek and Nelsonville near Boston, the clock reads the same.