Plains in numbers
- Coordinates
- 41.1407, -74.7018
- Elevation
- 141 m above sea level
- Region
- New Jersey
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 319 km away
- Same name
- 10 more places in the world share this name
This is the current time in Plains, New Jersey, United States, shown for the America/New_York time zone (−5).
Plains, United States
Tuesday, 3 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Plains
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Plains, New Jersey.
Sunrise 6:33 AM Solar noon 11:43 AM Sunset 4:54 PM Daylight 10 h 21 min Night 13 h 39 min Civil twilight 6:05 AM – 5:22 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.
Plains carries 4 postal codes.
The zone name for Plains is America/New_York and the offset is UTC−5. Daylight saving time: No.
In Plains today the sun is out from 6:33 AM until 4:54 PM. That comes to 10 h 21 min of daylight.
Nothing changes on the clock between Plains and neighbouring Sussex County or Armstrong.