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What time is it in Forest Hills, Massachusetts, United States

The time now in Forest Hills, Massachusetts, United States is shown here, following the America/New_York time zone (−5).

Forest Hills, United States

Wednesday, 4 November 2026

UTC−5 · America/New_York

Local time in Forest Hills

UTC−5 · no daylight saving time

Local time in Forest Hills, Massachusetts.

The sun today

Sunrise 6:22 AM Solar noon 11:29 AM Sunset 4:36 PM Daylight 10 h 14 min Night 13 h 46 min Civil twilight 5:53 AM – 5:05 PM

Weather in Forest Hills right now

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Forest Hills and its neighbours

Dorchester Roxbury Fairmount East Dedham Montclair New Squantum Forest Hills
Forest Hills at 42.2968, -71.1120 with the nearest towns within 7.1 km · open in OpenStreetMap

Postal codes

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.

Forest Hills in numbers

Coordinates
42.2968, -71.1120
Elevation
41 m above sea level
Country
United States, North America
Capital
Washington, D.C. — 627 km away
Same name
94 more places in the world share this name

Largest cities in Massachusetts

Other places named Forest Hills

Same time zone — America/New_York

Nearby places

Time and daylight in Forest Hills

The clock does not change between Forest Hills, Roslindale and Dorchester.

Forest Hills is served by a set of 2 postal codes.

Forest Hills runs on America/New_York, which sits UTC−5 relative to Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving in effect: No.

In Forest Hills today the sun is out from 6:22 AM until 4:36 PM. That comes to 10 h 14 min of daylight.

Questions and answers

What zone is used to calculate the time in Forest Hills?
The time in Forest Hills is calculated using America/New_York, with an offset of −5.
Does daylight saving time have any effect on the clock in Forest Hills?
Daylight saving in Forest Hills: No.
When does the sun appear in Forest Hills?
It appears at 6:22 AM.
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