Rural Retreat in numbers
- Coordinates
- 36.8937, -81.2759
- Elevation
- 766 m above sea level
- Population
- 1 485
- Region
- Virginia
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 433 km away
- Same name
- 1 more places in the world share this name
The clock on this page follows the local time of Rural Retreat, Virginia, United States, in the America/New_York zone (−5).
Rural Retreat, United States
Tuesday, 3 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Rural Retreat
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Rural Retreat.
Sunrise 6:52 AM Solar noon 12:10 PM Sunset 5:28 PM Daylight 10 h 35 min Night 13 h 25 min Civil twilight 6:25 AM – 5:54 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.
1 postal code divide Rural Retreat.
The zone in force in Rural Retreat is America/New_York, with an offset of UTC−5. Seasonal change: No.
In Rural Retreat today the sun is out from 6:52 AM until 5:28 PM. That comes to 10 h 35 min of daylight.
Rural Retreat and nearby Murpheyville and Hildreths House are never an hour apart.