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What time is it in East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States

This page reports the local time in East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States, set by the America/New_York time zone (−4).

East Rutherford, United States

7:45:43 PM

Friday, 16 October 2026

UTC−4 · America/New_York

Local time in East Rutherford

UTC−4 · daylight saving time is active

What the clock shows right now in East Rutherford.

The sun today

Sunrise 7:10 AM Solar noon 12:43 PM Sunset 6:16 PM Daylight 11 h 07 min Night 12 h 53 min Civil twilight 6:42 AM – 6:44 PM

Weather in East Rutherford right now

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East Rutherford and its neighbours

East Rutherford at 40.8340, -74.0971 with the nearest towns within 5.1 km · open in OpenStreetMap

Postal codes

07073

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.

East Rutherford in numbers

Coordinates: 40.8340, -74.0971
Elevation: 24 m above sea level
Population: 9 164
Region: New Jersey
Country: United States, North America
Capital: Washington, D.C. — 331 km away
Same name: 1 more places in the world share this name

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Same time zone — America/New_York

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Nearby places

Carlstadt — 0.9 km
Borough Of East Rutherford — 2.0 km
Borough Of Carlstadt — 3.2 km
Kingsland — 3.3 km
Borough Of Moonachie — 3.3 km
Lyndhurst — 3.4 km

About the time in East Rutherford

East Rutherford shares one clock with the nearby places Carlstadt and Borough Of East Rutherford.

East Rutherford contains 1 postal code.

The clock in East Rutherford is set to America/New_York, offset UTC−4. Daylight saving time in use: Yes.

Today in East Rutherford the sun appears at 7:10 AM and sets again at 6:16 PM. Daylight holds for 11 h 07 min.

Questions and answers

What time zone is used by East Rutherford?: East Rutherford uses the America/New_York time zone, which has an offset of −4.
Do people in East Rutherford set their clocks forward in spring?: Daylight saving in East Rutherford: Yes.
When does the sun appear in East Rutherford?: It appears at 7:10 AM.