Essen in numbers
- Coordinates
- 40.3620, -80.0823
- Elevation
- 286 m above sea level
- Region
- Pennsylvania
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 308 km away
- Same name
- 8 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Essen, Pennsylvania, United States
This page tells you the time right now in Essen, Pennsylvania, United States, in the America/New_York zone (−4).
Essen, United States
Thursday, 29 October 2026
UTC−4 · America/New_York
Local time in Essen
UTC−4 · daylight saving time is active
What the clock shows right now in Essen.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:48 AM Solar noon 1:05 PM Sunset 6:23 PM Daylight 10 h 35 min Night 13 h 25 min Civil twilight 7:19 AM – 6:51 PM
Weather in Essen right now
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Essen and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 15243 Pittsburgh — 1.6 km away
- 15017 Bridgeville — 3.2 km away
- 15241 Pittsburgh — 3.3 km away
- 15228 Pittsburgh — 3.4 km away
- 15142 Presto — 4.1 km away
- 15106 Carnegie — 4.6 km away
- 15064 Morgan — 4.9 km away
- 15234 Pittsburgh — 5.1 km away
- 15216 Pittsburgh — 5.2 km away
- 15102 Bethel Park — 5.8 km away
- 15220 Pittsburgh — 6.7 km away
- 15226 Pittsburgh — 7.0 km away
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 Essen
- Essen North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Essen Flanders, Belgium
- Essen Lower Saxony, Germany
- Essen Groningen, Netherlands
- Essen Lower Saxony, Germany
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
- Borough Of Heidelberg — 3.4 km
- Heidelberg — 3.4 km
- Clifton — 3.6 km
- Garvey Melton — 3.9 km
- Glendale — 4.0 km
- Hillcrest — 4.4 km
Local time details for Essen
The mail network in Essen covers 12 codes.
Time zone for Essen: America/New_York, running at UTC−4. Clocks change for daylight saving: Yes.
Sunrise arrives in Essen at 7:48 AM today and the sun goes down at 6:23 PM. That gives the day 10 h 35 min of light.
There is no time difference between Essen and nearby Borough Of Heidelberg or Heidelberg.
Questions and answers
- What zone is used to calculate the time in Essen?
- The time in Essen is calculated using America/New_York, with an offset of −4.
- Does daylight saving time apply in Essen?
- Yes.
- What time will the sun set in Essen today?
- Today it sets at 6:23 PM.