Salem in numbers
- Coordinates
- 33.9621, -79.8048
- Elevation
- 29 m above sea level
- Population
- 128
- Region
- South Carolina
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 602 km away
- Same name
- 128 more places in the world share this name
The local time of Salem, South Carolina, United States is presented here, in line with the America/New_York zone (−5).
Salem, United States
Monday, 9 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Salem
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Salem, South Carolina.
Sunrise 6:47 AM Solar noon 12:04 PM Sunset 5:21 PM Daylight 10 h 34 min Night 13 h 26 min Civil twilight 6:21 AM – 5:48 PM
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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.
12 codes make up the postal map of Salem.
Salem follows America/New_York, giving it a UTC−5 offset. Does the zone observe daylight saving? No.
Daylight in Salem today runs from 6:47 AM to 5:21 PM. The stretch measures 10 h 34 min.
Look nearby and you will see Coward and Byrds Crossroads on the same clock as Salem.