Shields in numbers
- Coordinates
- 36.8965, -83.1418
- Elevation
- 427 m above sea level
- Region
- Kentucky
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 580 km away
- Same name
- 12 more places in the world share this name
Local time right now in Shields, Kentucky, United States appears above, in the America/New_York time zone (−5).
Shields, United States
Thursday, 12 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Shields
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Shields keeps America/New_York clock_time.
Sunrise 7:09 AM Solar noon 12:18 PM Sunset 5:27 PM Daylight 10 h 18 min Night 13 h 42 min Civil twilight 6:41 AM – 5:54 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.
Neighbouring Gano and Benito sit in the same time as Shields.
Addressing within Shields draws on 1 postal code.
The time zone in effect for Shields is America/New_York, at UTC−5. Daylight saving time observed: No.
Sunrise today in Shields lands at 7:09 AM; sunset lands at 5:27 PM. That is 10 h 18 min of light.