Backus in numbers
- Coordinates
- 41.8023, -78.5639
- Elevation
- 629 m above sea level
- Region
- Pennsylvania
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 348 km away
- Same name
- 3 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Backus, Pennsylvania, United States
This page holds the current clock reading for Backus, Pennsylvania, United States, in the America/New_York time zone (−4).
Backus, United States
Monday, 26 October 2026
UTC−4 · America/New_York
Local time in Backus
UTC−4 · daylight saving time is active
Local time in Backus, Pennsylvania.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:40 AM Solar noon 12:59 PM Sunset 6:18 PM Daylight 10 h 38 min Night 13 h 22 min Civil twilight 7:12 AM – 6:47 PM
Weather in Backus right now
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Backus and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 56435
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 Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia 1 573 916
- Pittsburgh 304 391
- Allentown 120 207
- Erie 99 475
- Reading 87 879
- Scranton 77 118
Other places named Backus
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
- Mckean County — 0.7 km
- Mckean — 1.9 km
- Ormsby — 2.0 km
- Cyclone — 3.8 km
- Bingham — 4.3 km
- Simpson — 4.3 km
Time and daylight in Backus
Sorting mail for Backus involves 1 postal code.
The zone applied in Backus is America/New_York with offset UTC−4. Whether clocks shift for daylight saving: Yes.
Sunrise arrives in Backus at 7:40 AM today and the sun goes down at 6:18 PM. That gives the day 10 h 38 min of light.
Mckean County and Mckean are close to Backus and observe the same time.
Questions and answers
- Is Backus in a specific time zone?
- Yes, Backus is in the America/New_York time zone, with an offset of −4.
- Is there a seasonal clock change in Backus?
- Yes.
- Tell me the sunset hour in Backus.
- The sunset hour is 6:18 PM.