Salem in numbers
- Coordinates
- 37.2935, -80.0548
- Elevation
- 325 m above sea level
- Population
- 25 432
- Region
- Virginia
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 319 km away
- Same name
- 128 more places in the world share this name
The present local time in Salem, Virginia, United States is given below, for the America/New_York time zone (−5).
Salem, United States
Sunday, 8 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Salem
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Salem keeps America/New_York clock_time.
Sunrise 6:53 AM Solar noon 12:05 PM Sunset 5:17 PM Daylight 10 h 24 min Night 13 h 36 min Civil twilight 6:26 AM – 5:45 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.
Nearby places like Burwell and Dropmore are on Salem time.
Deliveries to Salem are sorted by 12 postal codes.
Salem runs on America/New_York, which sits UTC−5 relative to Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving in effect: No.
The horizon brightens over Salem at 6:53 AM, and the sun sets at 5:17 PM. Daylight runs 10 h 24 min.