Rochester in numbers
- Coordinates
- 43.2991, -70.9791
- Population
- 30 038
- Region
- New Hampshire
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 705 km away
- Same name
- 24 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Rochester, New Hampshire, United States
Below is the local time in Rochester, New Hampshire, United States, kept in the America/New_York zone (−5).
Rochester, United States
Monday, 2 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Rochester
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Rochester.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:21 AM Solar noon 11:29 AM Sunset 4:36 PM Daylight 10 h 15 min Night 13 h 45 min Civil twilight 5:51 AM – 5:06 PM
Weather in Rochester right now
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Rochester and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 02770
- 03839
- 03866
- 03867
- 03868
- 05767
- 14602
- 14603
- 14604
- 14605
- 14606
- 14607
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 Rochester
- Rochester New York, United States
- Rochester Minnesota, United States
- Rochester England, United Kingdom
- Rochester Michigan, United States
- Rochester 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
- West Gonic — 2.3 km
- Gonic — 2.7 km
- Meaderboro Corner — 4.1 km
- Strafford County — 4.1 km
- East Rochester — 4.9 km
- South Lebanon — 5.2 km
Time and daylight in Rochester
Within Rochester, postal codes number 12.
For Rochester the applicable zone is America/New_York, running UTC−5. Daylight saving time: No.
Sunrise comes to Rochester at 6:21 AM and sunset at 4:36 PM today. Together that makes 10 h 15 min of light.
Close to Rochester, the towns of West Gonic and Gonic show the same time.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone does Rochester use?
- Rochester uses America/New_York, which has an offset of −5.
- Will the time in Rochester move forward or back for daylight saving?
- Daylight saving time in Rochester: No.
- When does the sun go down in Rochester?
- Sunset in Rochester is at 4:36 PM.