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What time is it in Clifton, New Jersey, United States

Find the present-moment local time in Clifton, New Jersey, United States, which uses America/New_York (−4).

Clifton, United States

Wednesday, 28 October 2026

UTC−4 · America/New_York

Local time in Clifton

UTC−4 · daylight saving time is active

Local time in Clifton, New Jersey.

The sun today

Sunrise 7:23 AM Solar noon 12:42 PM Sunset 6:00 PM Daylight 10 h 36 min Night 13 h 24 min Civil twilight 6:55 AM – 6:28 PM

Weather in Clifton right now

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Clifton and its neighbours

Brookdale Delawanna Great Notch Garfield East Rutherford Kingsland Lodi Clifton
Clifton at 40.8584, -74.1638 with the nearest towns within 7.3 km · open in OpenStreetMap

Postal codes

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.

Clifton in numbers

Coordinates
40.8584, -74.1638
Population
86 334
Country
United States, North America
Capital
Washington, D.C. — 328 km away
Same name
92 more places in the world share this name

Largest cities in New Jersey

Other places named Clifton

Same time zone — America/New_York

Nearby places

Clifton: clock, sun and surroundings

Clifton sits in the America/New_York time zone, which runs at UTC−4. Daylight saving time: Yes.

The sun is up at 7:23 AM in Clifton and down again at 6:00 PM. Between those times there are 10 h 36 min of daylight.

Neighbouring Athenia and Brookdale keep the same hours as Clifton.

The mail network in Clifton covers 12 codes.

Questions and answers

What time zone does local time in Clifton follow?
Local time in Clifton follows America/New_York, with an offset of −4.
Does the local time in Clifton include a summer time period?
Yes.
What is the local sunrise time in Clifton?
Local sunrise is 7:23 AM.
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