Dorchester in numbers
- Coordinates
- 43.7567, -71.9487
- Elevation
- 421 m above sea level
- Population
- 376
- Region
- New Hampshire
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 687 km away
- Same name
- 21 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Dorchester, New Hampshire, United States
Find out what time it is now in Dorchester, New Hampshire, United States — the local clock runs on America/New_York (−4).
Dorchester, United States
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC−4 · America/New_York
Local time in Dorchester
UTC−4 · daylight saving time is active
Dorchester keeps America/New_York clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:04 AM Solar noon 12:34 PM Sunset 6:05 PM Daylight 11 h 00 min Night 13 h 00 min Civil twilight 6:35 AM – 6:34 PM
Weather in Dorchester right now
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Dorchester and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 02121
- 02122
- 02125
- 08316
- 29437
- 52140
- 54425
- 68343
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 New Hampshire
- Manchester 110 229
- Nashua 87 970
- Concord 43 976
- Salem 42 869
- East Concord 42 605
- Derry Village 34 539
Other places named Dorchester
- Dorchester Massachusetts, United States
- Dorchester England, United Kingdom
- Dorchester Ontario, Canada
- Dorchester Maryland, United States
- Dorchester New Brunswick, Canada
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
- Bucks Corner — 2.1 km
- North Dorchester — 5.4 km
- Cheever — 5.6 km
- North Groton — 6.3 km
- West Rumney — 8.9 km
- Groton — 11.0 km
Dorchester: clock, sun and surroundings
Dorchester and nearby Bucks Corner and North Dorchester are never an hour apart.
There are 8 postal code zones in Dorchester.
The time standard for Dorchester is America/New_York at UTC−4. Daylight saving time applies here: Yes.
Morning light reaches Dorchester at 7:04 AM, and the sun sets at 6:05 PM. Daylight lasts a total of 11 h 00 min.
Questions and answers
- What time zone is the clock in Dorchester based on?
- The clock in Dorchester is based on America/New_York, with an offset of −4.
- Do the clocks in Dorchester go back at any point?
- Yes.
- Please give the sunrise time for Dorchester.
- The sun rises at 7:04 AM.