Bethesda in numbers
- Coordinates
- 35.8223, -85.3425
- Elevation
- 272 m above sea level
- Region
- Tennessee
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 809 km away
- Same name
- 25 more places in the world share this name
Current local time for Bethesda, Tennessee, United States is listed here, in the America/Chicago time zone (−6).
Bethesda, United States
Sunday, 8 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Bethesda
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Bethesda, Tennessee.
Sunrise 6:12 AM Solar noon 11:26 AM Sunset 4:41 PM Daylight 10 h 29 min Night 13 h 31 min Civil twilight 5:45 AM – 5:08 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.
Sunrise for Bethesda today is set at 6:12 AM, sunset at 4:41 PM. Daylight covers 10 h 29 min.
Time runs the same in Bethesda and in nearby Dodson and Lost Creek.
12 postal codes have been allocated to Bethesda.
The local zone in Bethesda is America/Chicago, standing at UTC−6. Whether daylight saving applies: No.