Nantucket in numbers
- Coordinates
- 41.2835, -70.0995
- Elevation
- 13 m above sea level
- Population
- 7 446
- Region
- Massachusetts
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 647 km away
- Same name
- 3 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States
This page shows the current local time in Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States, in the America/New_York time zone (−5).
Nantucket, United States
Monday, 2 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Nantucket
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Nantucket.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:14 AM Solar noon 11:25 AM Sunset 4:36 PM Daylight 10 h 22 min Night 13 h 38 min Civil twilight 5:45 AM – 5:05 PM
Weather in Nantucket right now
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Nantucket and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 02554
- 02584
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 Nantucket
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
- Mikas Pond — 0.3 km
- Town Pasture — 1.4 km
- Monomoy — 1.7 km
- Shimmo — 2.1 km
- Shallow Pond — 2.9 km
- Shawkemo — 3.7 km
Time and daylight in Nantucket
2 postal codes are current for Nantucket.
Time in Nantucket runs on America/New_York, which is UTC−5. Does daylight saving time apply here? No.
Today's sunrise at Nantucket falls at 6:14 AM; sunset follows at 4:36 PM. Between them lie 10 h 22 min of daylight.
The clock in nearby Mikas Pond and Town Pasture follows Nantucket.
Questions and answers
- What is Nantucket's time zone?
- Nantucket's time zone is America/New_York, with an offset of −5.
- Is summer time applied in Nantucket?
- No.
- When is the sun up in Nantucket?
- The sun comes up at 6:14 AM.