Kensington in numbers
- Coordinates
- 38.9037, -84.6133
- Elevation
- 277 m above sea level
- Region
- Kentucky
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 655 km away
- Same name
- 46 more places in the world share this name
The present local time in Kensington, Kentucky, United States is given below, for the America/New_York time zone (−5).
Kensington, United States
Sunday, 8 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Kensington
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Kensington.
Sunrise 7:14 AM Solar noon 12:23 PM Sunset 5:32 PM Daylight 10 h 18 min Night 13 h 42 min Civil twilight 6:46 AM – 6:00 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 Kensington runs on America/New_York, which is UTC−5. Does daylight saving time apply here? No.
Today the sun rises over Kensington at 7:14 AM and sets at 5:32 PM. That is 10 h 18 min of daylight in all.
Time runs the same in Kensington and in nearby Richwood and Bank Lick.
Sorting mail for Kensington involves 5 postal codes.