Nelson in numbers
- Coordinates
- 41.9784, -77.2361
- Elevation
- 331 m above sea level
- Region
- Pennsylvania
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 343 km away
- Same name
- 39 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Nelson, Pennsylvania, United States
The reading below is the local time in Nelson, Pennsylvania, United States, taken from the America/New_York zone (−4).
Nelson, United States
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC−4 · America/New_York
Local time in Nelson
UTC−4 · daylight saving time is active
What the clock shows right now in Nelson.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:23 AM Solar noon 12:56 PM Sunset 6:28 PM Daylight 11 h 04 min Night 12 h 56 min Civil twilight 6:55 AM – 6:56 PM
Weather in Nelson right now
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Nelson and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 03457
- 16940
- 24580
- 30151
- 54756
- 56355
- 65347
- 68961
- 95958
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 Nelson
- Nelson Nelson Region, New Zealand
- Nelson England, United Kingdom
- Nelson Wales, United Kingdom
- Nelson British Columbia, Canada
- Nelson Georgia, 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
- Tompkins — 3.7 km
- Nichols — 4.2 km
- Farmington Hill — 6.2 km
- Elkland — 6.2 km
- Borough Of Elkland — 6.6 km
- Pritchard (historical) — 6.6 km
Time and daylight in Nelson
Nelson runs on America/New_York, which sits UTC−4 relative to Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving in effect: Yes.
Sunrise comes to Nelson at 7:23 AM and sunset at 6:28 PM today. Together that makes 11 h 04 min of light.
Time in Tompkins and Nichols, both close to Nelson, runs the same.
Mail delivery in Nelson relies on 9 postal codes.
Questions and answers
- What time zone corresponds to Nelson?
- America/New_York corresponds to Nelson and has an offset of −4.
- Will the time in Nelson move forward or back for daylight saving?
- Daylight saving time in Nelson: Yes.
- When is the sun up in Nelson?
- The sun comes up at 7:23 AM.