Brightwood in numbers
- Coordinates
- 38.8646, -76.3486
- Elevation
- 2 m above sea level
- Region
- Maryland
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 60 km away
- Same name
- 11 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Brightwood, Maryland, United States
The time in Brightwood, Maryland, United States at this very moment is shown below, in the America/New_York zone (−4).
Brightwood, United States
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC−4 · America/New_York
Local time in Brightwood
UTC−4 · daylight saving time is active
What the clock shows right now in Brightwood.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:17 AM Solar noon 12:52 PM Sunset 6:27 PM Daylight 11 h 11 min Night 12 h 49 min Civil twilight 6:50 AM – 6:54 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
- Sunny Isle Of Kent — 7.8 km
- Tunis — 8.2 km
- Wittman — 9.2 km
- Walnut Shores — 10.4 km
- Valliant — 11.0 km
- Bay City — 11.4 km
Time and daylight in Brightwood
The sky over Brightwood lightens at 7:17 AM and the sun sets at 6:27 PM. Daylight runs for 11 h 11 min today.
Brightwood keeps the same time as its neighbours Sunny Isle Of Kent and Tunis.
2 codes make up the postal map of Brightwood.
The applicable time zone for Brightwood is America/New_York, offset UTC−4. Seasonal clock change applies: Yes.
Questions and answers
- Should America/New_York be used as the time zone for Brightwood?
- Yes, Brightwood uses America/New_York, whose offset is −4.
- Does the time in Brightwood shift by an hour at any point in the year?
- Yes.
- How early in the evening does the sun set in Brightwood?
- It sets at 6:27 PM.