Colchester in numbers
- Coordinates
- 42.1604, -75.0774
- Elevation
- 390 m above sea level
- Region
- New York
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 399 km away
- Same name
- 9 more places in the world share this name
Right now in Colchester, New York, United States the local time is the one shown here, in the America/New_York zone (−5).
Colchester, United States
Sunday, 1 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Colchester
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Colchester, New York.
Sunrise 6:34 AM Solar noon 11:45 AM Sunset 4:56 PM Daylight 10 h 22 min Night 13 h 38 min Civil twilight 6:05 AM – 5:25 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.
No adjustment is needed moving between Colchester, Walton and Hawleys.
5 codes are used to address mail in Colchester.
Local clocks in Colchester answer to America/New_York, set UTC−5 from UTC. Daylight saving time: No.
The sun comes up over Colchester at 6:34 AM today and drops below the horizon at 4:56 PM. That is 10 h 22 min between the two.