Gloucester in numbers
- Coordinates
- 42.6141, -70.6631
- Population
- 29 781
- Region
- Massachusetts
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 677 km away
- Same name
- 9 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States
This page shows what the clocks read right now in Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States, in the America/New_York zone (−4).
Gloucester, United States
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC−4 · America/New_York
Local time in Gloucester
UTC−4 · daylight saving time is active
What the clock shows right now in Gloucester.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:58 AM Solar noon 12:29 PM Sunset 6:01 PM Daylight 11 h 03 min Night 12 h 57 min Civil twilight 6:29 AM – 6:29 PM
Weather in Gloucester right now
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Gloucester and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 01930
- 01931
- 23061
- 28528
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 Gloucester
- Gloucester Ontario, Canada
- Gloucester England, United Kingdom
- Gloucester New South Wales, Australia
- Gloucester North Carolina, United States
- Gloucester Virginia, 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
- Five Pound Island — 0.8 km
- Rocky Neck — 1.0 km
- East Gloucester — 1.3 km
- Bass Rocks — 2.3 km
- Riverdale — 2.3 km
- Dogtown Commons — 2.5 km
About the time in Gloucester
Today the sun comes up at 6:58 AM in Gloucester and goes down at 6:01 PM. Daylight measures 11 h 03 min.
Neighbouring Five Pound Island and Rocky Neck keep the same hours as Gloucester.
Delivery zones in Gloucester are marked by 4 postal codes.
Gloucester follows America/New_York, giving it a UTC−4 offset. Does the zone observe daylight saving? Yes.
Questions and answers
- How is the time zone for Gloucester labeled?
- The time zone for Gloucester is labeled America/New_York, with an offset of −4.
- Is the local clock in Gloucester affected by daylight saving time?
- Yes.
- Both sunrise and sunset in Gloucester — what times?
- 6:58 AM and 6:01 PM.