Purgatory in numbers
- Coordinates
- 41.4840, -71.2756
- Elevation
- 21 m above sea level
- Region
- Rhode Island
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 568 km away
- Same name
- 1 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Purgatory, Rhode Island, United States
The current local time in Purgatory, Rhode Island, United States is displayed here for the America/New_York time zone (−5).
Purgatory, United States
Sunday, 1 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Purgatory
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Purgatory, Rhode Island.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:18 AM Solar noon 11:30 AM Sunset 4:42 PM Daylight 10 h 24 min Night 13 h 36 min Civil twilight 5:49 AM – 5:11 PM
Weather in Purgatory right now
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Purgatory and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 02841 Newport — 2.6 km away
- 02842 Middletown — 4.0 km away
- 02840 Newport — 4.3 km away
- 02801 Adamsville — 5.2 km away
- 02835 Jamestown — 9.1 km away
- 02837 Little Compton — 10.4 km away
- 02871 Portsmouth — 12.4 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 Rhode Island
- Providence 190 934
- Warwick 81 699
- Cranston 81 073
- Pawtucket 71 591
- East Providence 47 408
- Woonsocket 41 475
Other places named Purgatory
- Purgatory Maine, 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
- Newport County — 1.8 km
- Sachuest — 2.9 km
- Newport — 3.2 km
- Whitehall — 3.4 km
- Brenton Village — 5.4 km
- South Portsmouth — 6.9 km
About the time in Purgatory
In Newport County and Sachuest the clock agrees with Purgatory.
Postal areas within Purgatory come to 7.
Purgatory carries the America/New_York zone, offset UTC−5. Whether daylight saving time is applied: No.
In Purgatory today the sun is out from 6:18 AM until 4:42 PM. That comes to 10 h 24 min of daylight.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone governs time in Purgatory?
- Time in Purgatory follows the America/New_York time zone, with an offset of −5.
- Do the clocks in Purgatory go back at any point?
- No.
- Looking for sunrise and sunset in Purgatory — what are they?
- Sunrise at 6:18 AM, sunset at 4:42 PM.