Franklin in numbers
- Coordinates
- 40.8743, -74.5116
- Elevation
- 182 m above sea level
- Region
- New Jersey
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 308 km away
- Same name
- 71 more places in the world share this name
Look up the current time in Franklin, New Jersey, United States, which follows the America/New_York zone (−5).
Franklin, United States
Saturday, 7 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Franklin
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Franklin, New Jersey.
Sunrise 6:37 AM Solar noon 11:43 AM Sunset 4:49 PM Daylight 10 h 12 min Night 13 h 48 min Civil twilight 6:08 AM – 5:18 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 sun comes up over Franklin at 6:37 AM today and drops below the horizon at 4:49 PM. That is 10 h 12 min between the two.
Set your clock for Franklin and it will also be right in Morris County and Denville.
Mail delivery in Franklin relies on 12 postal codes.
Franklin sits under America/New_York, which puts local clocks at UTC−5. Daylight saving in use: No.