Union County in numbers
- Coordinates
- 40.6598, -74.3086
- Region
- New Jersey
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 305 km away
- Same name
- 16 more places in the world share this name
This page tells you the time right now in Union County, New Jersey, United States, in the America/New_York zone (−5).
Union County, United States
Saturday, 7 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Union County
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Union County, New Jersey.
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 – 5:17 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.
At Union County the sun clears the horizon at 6:36 AM and sinks again at 4:49 PM. The gap between them is 10 h 13 min.
Around Union County, places such as Cranford and Garwood use the same time.
Union County takes in 12 postal codes.
Union County sits under America/New_York, which puts local clocks at UTC−5. Daylight saving in use: No.