Mount Vernon in numbers
- Coordinates
- 38.7141, -77.1008
- Elevation
- 10 m above sea level
- Population
- 12 416
- Region
- Virginia
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 21 km away
- Same name
- 69 more places in the world share this name
The reading below is the local time in Mount Vernon, Virginia, United States, taken from the America/New_York zone (−5).
Mount Vernon, United States
Saturday, 14 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Mount Vernon
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Mount Vernon keeps America/New_York clock_time.
Sunrise 6:51 AM Solar noon 11:54 AM Sunset 4:57 PM Daylight 10 h 07 min Night 13 h 53 min Civil twilight 6:22 AM – 5:26 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.
Neighbouring places Fort Hunt and Accokeek Lawn run on Mount Vernon time.
12 postal codes correspond to Mount Vernon.
Mount Vernon follows America/New_York, giving it a UTC−5 offset. Does the zone observe daylight saving? No.
The sun is up at 6:51 AM in Mount Vernon and down again at 4:57 PM. Between those times there are 10 h 07 min of daylight.