Suffolk County in numbers
- Coordinates
- 42.3555, -71.0658
- Region
- Massachusetts
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 634 km away
- Same name
- 1 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
Below you can see what the time is in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States now, in the America/New_York zone (−4).
Suffolk County, United States
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC−4 · America/New_York
Local time in Suffolk County
UTC−4 · daylight saving time is active
What the clock shows right now in Suffolk County.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:59 AM Solar noon 12:31 PM Sunset 6:03 PM Daylight 11 h 04 min Night 12 h 56 min Civil twilight 6:31 AM – 6:31 PM
Weather in Suffolk County right now
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Suffolk County and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 02108 Boston — 0.3 km away
- 02111 Boston — 0.6 km away
- 02211 Boston — 0.6 km away
- 02266 Boston — 0.6 km away
- 02293 Boston — 0.6 km away
- 02297 Boston — 0.6 km away
- 02241 Boston — 0.6 km away
- 02201 Boston — 0.6 km away
- 02212 Boston — 0.6 km away
- 02196 Boston — 0.6 km away
- 02133 Boston — 0.6 km away
- 02112 Boston — 0.6 km away
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 Suffolk County
- Suffolk County New York, 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
- East Cambridge — 1.7 km
- East Boston — 3.1 km
- East Somerville — 3.8 km
- Roxbury — 4.2 km
- Somerville — 4.5 km
- Old Cambridge — 4.8 km
Suffolk County: clock, sun and surroundings
The postal code count for Suffolk County is 12.
The zone applied in Suffolk County is America/New_York with offset UTC−4. Whether clocks shift for daylight saving: Yes.
In Suffolk County the sun rises today at 6:59 AM and sets again at 6:03 PM. Daylight fills 11 h 04 min of the day.
Neighbouring East Cambridge and East Boston sit in the same time as Suffolk County.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone determines the local time in Suffolk County?
- Local time in Suffolk County is determined by America/New_York, with an offset of −4.
- Is the offset in Suffolk County changed for daylight saving?
- Yes.
- How early in the evening does the sun set in Suffolk County?
- It sets at 6:03 PM.