Charleston in numbers
- Coordinates
- 40.0390, -74.8913
- Elevation
- 8 m above sea level
- Region
- New Jersey
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 224 km away
- Same name
- 32 more places in the world share this name
Check the current local time in Charleston, New Jersey, United States, which sits in the America/New_York time zone (−5).
Charleston, United States
Friday, 13 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Charleston
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Charleston.
Sunrise 6:44 AM Solar noon 11:45 AM Sunset 4:47 PM Daylight 10 h 03 min Night 13 h 57 min Civil twilight 6:15 AM – 5:15 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.
The number of postal codes covering Charleston is 12.
In Charleston the time zone is America/New_York and the offset is UTC−5. Daylight saving time used: No.
The day begins at Charleston with sunrise at 6:44 AM and ends with sunset at 4:47 PM. Daylight totals 10 h 03 min.
The clock in nearby Centerton and Bougher follows Charleston.