Dover in numbers
- Coordinates
- 42.2459, -71.2828
- Elevation
- 53 m above sea level
- Population
- 2 265
- Region
- Massachusetts
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 612 km away
- Same name
- 55 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Dover, Massachusetts, United States
This is the current time in Dover, Massachusetts, United States, shown for the America/New_York time zone (−4).
Dover, United States
Monday, 26 October 2026
UTC−4 · America/New_York
Local time in Dover
UTC−4 · daylight saving time is active
What the clock shows right now in Dover.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:12 AM Solar noon 12:30 PM Sunset 5:49 PM Daylight 10 h 37 min Night 13 h 23 min Civil twilight 6:43 AM – 6:17 PM
Weather in Dover right now
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Dover and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 02030
- 03820
- 03821
- 03822
- 07801
- 07802
- 17315
- 19901
- 19903
- 19904
- 19905
- 19906
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 Massachusetts
- Boston 653 833
- South Boston 571 281
- Worcester 206 518
- Springfield 154 341
- Lowell 110 699
- Cambridge 110 402
Other places named Dover
- Dover England, United Kingdom
- Dover Delaware, United States
- Dover New Hampshire, United States
- Dover New Jersey, United States
- Dover 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
- Glenridge — 3.2 km
- South Natick — 4.1 km
- Farm Street Station — 4.7 km
- Morseville — 5.0 km
- Harding — 5.8 km
- Needham — 5.9 km
About the time in Dover
The horizon brightens over Dover at 7:12 AM, and the sun sets at 5:49 PM. Daylight runs 10 h 37 min.
Glenridge and South Natick are neighbours of Dover on the same clock.
The mail network in Dover covers 12 codes.
Dover stands in America/New_York, an offset of UTC−4 from Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving: Yes.
Questions and answers
- What should I enter as the time zone for Dover?
- Enter America/New_York as the time zone for Dover; its offset is −4.
- Does Dover observe daylight saving time?
- Yes.
- When does the sun appear in Dover?
- It appears at 7:12 AM.