Brightwood in numbers
- Coordinates
- 39.1096, -76.6136
- Elevation
- 49 m above sea level
- Region
- Maryland
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 44 km away
- Same name
- 11 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Brightwood, Maryland, United States
Find out what time it is now in Brightwood, Maryland, United States — the local clock runs on America/New_York (−5).
Brightwood, United States
Sunday, 8 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Brightwood
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Brightwood, Maryland.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:43 AM Solar noon 11:51 AM Sunset 5:00 PM Daylight 10 h 17 min Night 13 h 43 min Civil twilight 6:15 AM – 5:28 PM
Weather in Brightwood right now
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Brightwood and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 22715
- 97011
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 Maryland
- Baltimore 585 708
- Columbia 99 615
- Germantown 86 395
- Silver Spring 71 452
- Frederick 69 479
- Waldorf 67 752
Other places named Brightwood
- Brightwood District of Columbia, United States
- Brightwood Virginia, United States
- Brightwood Nova Scotia, Canada
- Brightwood Massachusetts, United States
- Brightwood Maryland, 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
- Windy Knolls — 0.3 km
- Zeman — 0.9 km
- Yorktown — 1.5 km
- Stewarts Purchase — 2.4 km
- Woodholme — 3.2 km
- Sun Valley — 4.1 km
Brightwood: clock, sun and surroundings
Brightwood is served by a set of 2 postal codes.
The zone covering Brightwood is called America/New_York and stands at UTC−5. Seasonal clock changes apply: No.
Sunrise today in Brightwood lands at 6:43 AM; sunset lands at 5:00 PM. That is 10 h 17 min of light.
Time in Brightwood applies without change in Windy Knolls and Zeman nearby.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone applies to Brightwood?
- The time zone that applies to Brightwood is America/New_York, with an offset of −5.
- Does the time in Brightwood vary with the season?
- Daylight saving time in Brightwood: No.
- When is the sun down in Brightwood?
- The sun goes down at 5:00 PM.