Jackson in numbers
- Coordinates
- 37.5590, -83.3783
- Elevation
- 236 m above sea level
- Population
- 2 152
- Region
- Kentucky
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 573 km away
- Same name
- 54 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Jackson, Kentucky, United States
The reading below is the local time in Jackson, Kentucky, United States, taken from the America/New_York zone (−4).
Jackson, United States
Tuesday, 27 October 2026
UTC−4 · America/New_York
Local time in Jackson
UTC−4 · daylight saving time is active
Local time in Jackson, Kentucky.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:54 AM Solar noon 1:18 PM Sunset 6:43 PM Daylight 10 h 48 min Night 13 h 12 min Civil twilight 7:27 AM – 7:09 PM
Weather in Jackson right now
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Jackson and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 03846
- 08527
- 18825
- 27845
- 29831
- 30233
- 36545
- 38301
- 38302
- 38303
- 38305
- 38308
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 Kentucky
- Louisville 624 444
- Lexington 320 347
- Lexington-Fayette 314 488
- Meads 288 649
- Bowling Green 63 616
- Owensboro 59 042
Other places named Jackson
- Jackson Mississippi, United States
- Jackson Tennessee, United States
- Jackson New Jersey, United States
- Jackson Michigan, United States
- Jackson Missouri, United States
Same time zone — America/New_York
- New York City United States
- Brooklyn United States
- Queens United States
- Philadelphia United States
- Manhattan United States
- The Bronx United States
Nearby places
- Panhandle — 0.5 km
- Wolverine — 3.6 km
- Noctor — 3.6 km
- Elkatawa — 4.3 km
- Quicksand — 4.4 km
- Fivemile — 4.8 km
About the time in Jackson
Panhandle and Noctor are near Jackson and do not differ from it in time.
Within Jackson, postal codes number 12.
The zone applied in Jackson is America/New_York with offset UTC−4. Whether clocks shift for daylight saving: Yes.
Sunrise time for Jackson today is 7:54 AM; sunset time is 6:43 PM. Daylight fills 10 h 48 min.
Questions and answers
- What is the time zone for Jackson?
- The time zone for Jackson is America/New_York, with an offset of −4.
- Does Jackson stay on standard time all year?
- Daylight saving in Jackson: Yes.
- Tell me the sunset hour in Jackson.
- The sunset hour is 6:43 PM.