Bethesda in numbers
- Coordinates
- 35.7612, -86.7931
- Elevation
- 243 m above sea level
- Region
- Tennessee
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 930 km away
- Same name
- 25 more places in the world share this name
The present local time in Bethesda, Tennessee, United States is given below, for 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
What the clock shows right now in Bethesda.
Sunrise 6:17 AM Solar noon 11:32 AM Sunset 4:47 PM Daylight 10 h 30 min Night 13 h 30 min Civil twilight 5:50 AM – 5:14 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.
Bethesda accounts for 12 postal codes.
Bethesda sets its clocks by America/Chicago, which runs UTC−6. Daylight saving time here: No.
The sun comes up over Bethesda at 6:17 AM today and drops below the horizon at 4:47 PM. That is 10 h 30 min between the two.
Nearby, Duplex and Little Texas go by the same clock as Bethesda.