Lancaster County in numbers
- Coordinates
- 40.0424, -76.2477
- Region
- Pennsylvania
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 144 km away
- Same name
- 3 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
What follows is the current local time in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States, in the America/New_York zone (−5).
Lancaster County, United States
Monday, 9 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Lancaster County
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Lancaster County keeps America/New_York clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:44 AM Solar noon 11:50 AM Sunset 4:56 PM Daylight 10 h 11 min Night 13 h 49 min Civil twilight 6:16 AM – 5:24 PM
Weather in Lancaster County right now
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Lancaster County and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 17585 Witmer — 3.2 km away
- 17602 Lancaster — 3.3 km away
- 17576 Smoketown — 4.4 km away
- 17622 Lancaster — 4.6 km away
- 17611 Lancaster — 4.9 km away
- 17503 Bart — 5.0 km away
- 17564 Penryn — 5.0 km away
- 17605 Lancaster — 5.0 km away
- 17607 Lancaster — 5.0 km away
- 17608 Lancaster — 5.0 km away
- 17699 Lancaster — 5.0 km away
- 17505 Bird In Hand — 5.7 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 Lancaster County
- Lancaster County Nebraska, United States
- Lancaster County South Carolina, United States
- Lancaster County Virginia, United States
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
- Fertility — 1.8 km
- Greenland — 1.8 km
- Clearview — 5.1 km
- Engleside — 5.3 km
- Talmage — 5.5 km
- Lampeter — 5.9 km
About the time in Lancaster County
Lancaster County keeps the same time as its neighbours Fertility and Greenland.
Lancaster County appears under 12 postal codes.
Time in Lancaster County runs on America/New_York, which is UTC−5. Does daylight saving time apply here? No.
Today at Lancaster County, the sun rises at 6:44 AM and sets at 4:56 PM. That gives 10 h 11 min of daylight.
Questions and answers
- What time zone does local time in Lancaster County follow?
- Local time in Lancaster County follows America/New_York, with an offset of −5.
- Will the time in Lancaster County move forward or back for daylight saving?
- Daylight saving time in Lancaster County: No.
- When does the sun appear in Lancaster County?
- It appears at 6:44 AM.