Columbia Heights in numbers
- Coordinates
- 38.8576, -77.1211
- Elevation
- 76 m above sea level
- Region
- Virginia
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 8 km away
- Same name
- 11 more places in the world share this name
The present local time in Columbia Heights, Virginia, United States is given below, for the America/New_York time zone (−5).
Columbia Heights, United States
Tuesday, 10 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Columbia Heights
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Columbia Heights.
Sunrise 6:47 AM Solar noon 11:54 AM Sunset 5:01 PM Daylight 10 h 14 min Night 13 h 46 min Civil twilight 6:18 AM – 5:29 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.
Foxhall Village and Foggy Bottom, both nearby, hold the same time as Columbia Heights.
Postal numbering in Columbia Heights covers 12 codes.
The local zone in Columbia Heights is America/New_York, standing at UTC−5. Whether daylight saving applies: No.
The sun rises over Columbia Heights today at 6:47 AM and slips away at 5:01 PM. That leaves 10 h 14 min of daylight.