Buchanan in numbers
- Coordinates
- 41.8273, -86.3611
- Elevation
- 212 m above sea level
- Population
- 4 362
- Region
- Michigan
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 854 km away
- Same name
- 21 more places in the world share this name
Right now in Buchanan, Michigan, United States the local time is the one shown here, in the America/Detroit zone (−5).
Buchanan, United States
Saturday, 14 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/Detroit
Local time in Buchanan
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Buchanan keeps America/Detroit clock_time.
Sunrise 7:35 AM Solar noon 12:31 PM Sunset 5:27 PM Daylight 9 h 53 min Night 14 h 07 min Civil twilight 7:05 AM – 5:57 PM
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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.
6 postal codes are listed for Buchanan.
Buchanan tells time by America/Detroit, an offset of UTC−5. Clock shift for daylight saving: No.
Morning light reaches Buchanan at 7:35 AM, and the sun sets at 5:27 PM. Daylight lasts a total of 9 h 53 min.
For Riverside Mobile Home Estates and Bakertown near Buchanan, the clock reads the same.