Germantown in numbers
- Coordinates
- 38.3084, -75.2096
- Elevation
- 9 m above sea level
- Region
- Maryland
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 172 km away
- Same name
- 36 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Germantown, Maryland, United States
See the local time in Germantown, Maryland, United States right now, measured in the America/New_York time zone (−5).
Germantown, United States
Sunday, 8 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Germantown
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Germantown.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:36 AM Solar noon 11:46 AM Sunset 4:56 PM Daylight 10 h 20 min Night 13 h 40 min Civil twilight 6:08 AM – 5:24 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
- Germantown 86 395
- Silver Spring 71 452
- Frederick 69 479
- Waldorf 67 752
Other places named Germantown
- Germantown Maryland, United States
- Germantown Tennessee, United States
- Germantown Wisconsin, United States
- Germantown Pennsylvania, United States
- Germantown Ohio, 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
- Berlin — 1.7 km
- Briddletown — 3.2 km
- Ironshire — 3.3 km
- Sinepuxent — 5.1 km
- Taylorville — 6.6 km
- Golf Club Shores — 7.3 km
Time and daylight in Germantown
11 postal codes describe the layout of Germantown.
Germantown runs on America/New_York, which sits UTC−5 relative to Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving in effect: No.
The sun rises over Germantown today at 6:36 AM and slips away at 4:56 PM. That leaves 10 h 20 min of daylight.
Nothing changes on the clock between Germantown and neighbouring Berlin or Briddletown.
Questions and answers
- What should I enter as the time zone for Germantown?
- Enter America/New_York as the time zone for Germantown; its offset is −5.
- Are daylight saving rules used in Germantown?
- Daylight saving time in Germantown: No.
- I need the sunrise and sunset times for Germantown.
- They are 6:36 AM and 4:56 PM.