Germantown in numbers
- Coordinates
- 39.1732, -77.2717
- Elevation
- 134 m above sea level
- Population
- 86 395
- Region
- Maryland
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 37 km away
- Same name
- 36 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Germantown, Maryland, United States
This page tells you the time right now in Germantown, Maryland, United States, in the America/New_York zone (−5).
Germantown, United States
Sunday, 8 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Germantown
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Germantown, Maryland.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:46 AM Solar noon 11:54 AM Sunset 5:02 PM Daylight 10 h 17 min Night 13 h 43 min Civil twilight 6:17 AM – 5:31 PM
Weather in Germantown right now
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Germantown and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 12526
- 20874
- 20875
- 20876
- 38138
- 38139
- 38183
- 41044
- 45327
- 53022
- 62245
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
- Silver Spring 71 452
- Frederick 69 479
- Waldorf 67 752
- Glen Burnie 67 639
Other places named Germantown
- Germantown Tennessee, United States
- Germantown Wisconsin, United States
- Germantown Pennsylvania, United States
- Germantown Ohio, United States
- Germantown Illinois, 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
- Stoneridge — 1.5 km
- Brandermill — 3.7 km
- Boyds — 3.7 km
- Brownstown — 4.1 km
- Burdette — 4.1 km
- Brink — 4.9 km
About the time in Germantown
The same local time applies in Germantown, Stoneridge and Boyds.
Coverage of Germantown by postal code amounts to 11 entries.
The time zone used in Germantown is America/New_York, set at UTC−5. Whether the clocks shift for daylight saving: No.
In Germantown the sun appears at 6:46 AM and disappears at 5:02 PM today. Daylight stretches 10 h 17 min.
Questions and answers
- Does Germantown use the America/New_York time zone?
- Yes, Germantown uses America/New_York, with an offset of −5.
- Does Germantown apply a daylight saving adjustment?
- No.
- Tell me the sunset hour in Germantown.
- The sunset hour is 5:02 PM.