Needham in numbers
- Coordinates
- 42.2834, -71.2328
- Population
- 28 886
- Region
- Massachusetts
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 618 km away
- Same name
- 5 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Needham, Massachusetts, United States
Find out what time it is now in Needham, Massachusetts, United States — the local clock runs on America/New_York (−4).
Needham, United States
Monday, 26 October 2026
UTC−4 · America/New_York
Local time in Needham
UTC−4 · daylight saving time is active
What the clock shows right now in Needham.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:12 AM Solar noon 12:30 PM Sunset 5:48 PM Daylight 10 h 37 min Night 13 h 23 min Civil twilight 6:43 AM – 6:17 PM
Weather in Needham right now
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Needham and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 02492
- 36915
- 46162
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 Needham
- Needham England, United Kingdom
- Needham Alabama, United States
- Needham Arkansas, United States
- Needham Georgia, United States
- Needham Indiana, 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
- Eliot — 4.3 km
- Grantville — 4.7 km
- Newton Highlands — 5.0 km
- Dover — 5.9 km
- Newton — 6.3 km
- South Natick — 6.9 km
About the time in Needham
The time given for Needham holds for nearby Eliot and Grantville too.
3 postal codes serve Needham.
Needham runs on America/New_York, which sits UTC−4 relative to Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving in effect: Yes.
Sunrise for Needham today is set at 7:12 AM, sunset at 5:48 PM. Daylight covers 10 h 37 min.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone governs time in Needham?
- Time in Needham follows the America/New_York time zone, with an offset of −4.
- Does the time in Needham vary with the season?
- Daylight saving time in Needham: Yes.
- At what time is the sun rising in Needham?
- The sun is rising at 7:12 AM.