Mountainside in numbers
- Coordinates
- 40.6723, -74.3574
- Elevation
- 46 m above sea level
- Population
- 6 885
- Region
- New Jersey
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 302 km away
- Same name
- 2 more places in the world share this name
Find out what time it is now in Mountainside, New Jersey, United States — the local clock runs on America/New_York (−5).
Mountainside, United States
Saturday, 7 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Mountainside
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Mountainside keeps America/New_York clock_time.
Sunrise 6:36 AM Solar noon 11:42 AM Sunset 4:49 PM Daylight 10 h 13 min Night 13 h 47 min Civil twilight 6:07 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.
Postal codes tied to Mountainside number 1.
Mountainside runs on America/New_York, which sits UTC−5 relative to Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving in effect: No.
Today Mountainside sees sunrise at 6:36 AM, sunset at 4:49 PM. Daylight comes out to 10 h 13 min.
Garwood and Borough Of Garwood, both nearby, hold the same time as Mountainside.