Hamden in numbers
- Coordinates
- 40.6034, -74.9004
- Elevation
- 52 m above sea level
- Region
- New Jersey
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 263 km away
- Same name
- 5 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Hamden, New Jersey, United States
The present local time in Hamden, New Jersey, United States is given below, for the America/New_York time zone (−4).
Hamden, United States
Monday, 26 October 2026
UTC−4 · America/New_York
Local time in Hamden
UTC−4 · daylight saving time is active
Local time in Hamden, New Jersey.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:24 AM Solar noon 12:45 PM Sunset 6:06 PM Daylight 10 h 42 min Night 13 h 18 min Civil twilight 6:56 AM – 6:34 PM
Weather in Hamden right now
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Hamden and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 06514
- 06517
- 06518
- 13782
- 45634
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 Jersey
Other places named Hamden
- Hamden Connecticut, United States
- Hamden Ohio, United States
- Hamden Missouri, United States
- Hamden New York, United States
- Hamden Oklahoma, 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
- Lansdowne — 0.7 km
- Allerton — 2.0 km
- Grandin — 3.2 km
- Kingtown — 4.0 km
- Hunterdon County — 4.1 km
- Mcpherson — 4.5 km
About the time in Hamden
At Hamden the sun clears the horizon at 7:24 AM and sinks again at 6:06 PM. The gap between them is 10 h 42 min.
The clock does not change between Hamden, Lansdowne and Allerton.
5 postal codes correspond to Hamden.
Hamden runs on America/New_York, which sits UTC−4 relative to Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving in effect: Yes.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone governs time in Hamden?
- Time in Hamden follows the America/New_York time zone, with an offset of −4.
- What time zone rules apply in Hamden — does the clock change for daylight saving time?
- Daylight saving time in Hamden: Yes.
- When does the sun go down in Hamden?
- Sunset in Hamden is at 6:06 PM.