Long Island City in numbers
- Coordinates
- 40.7448, -73.9488
- Elevation
- 4 m above sea level
- Population
- 25 595
- Region
- New York
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 334 km away
What time is it in Long Island City, New York, United States
Find the present-moment local time in Long Island City, New York, United States, which uses America/New_York (−5).
Long Island City, United States
Monday, 9 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Long Island City
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Long Island City.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:37 AM Solar noon 11:41 AM Sunset 4:45 PM Daylight 10 h 08 min Night 13 h 52 min Civil twilight 6:08 AM – 5:14 PM
Weather in Long Island City right now
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Long Island City and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 11101
- 11109
- 11120
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 York
- New York City 8 804 190
- Brooklyn 2 736 074
- Queens 2 316 841
- Manhattan 1 487 536
- The Bronx 1 385 108
- Staten Island 468 730
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
- Weehawken — 6.6 km
- Guttenberg — 7.0 km
- Hoboken — 7.0 km
- West New York — 7.3 km
- Union City — 7.4 km
- New Durham — 8.4 km
Long Island City: clock, sun and surroundings
3 postal codes have been allocated to Long Island City.
Local clocks in Long Island City follow the America/New_York zone, UTC−5. Do they shift for daylight saving? No.
The sun shows itself over Long Island City at 6:37 AM and sets at 4:45 PM today. That is 10 h 08 min of light.
Weehawken and Guttenberg sit nearby and do not run ahead of or behind Long Island City.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone designation is used for Long Island City?
- The designation used for Long Island City is America/New_York, with an offset of −5.
- Is daylight saving time used in Long Island City?
- No.
- At what hour does the sun set in Long Island City?
- At 4:45 PM.