Switch Back in numbers
- Coordinates
- 38.0129, -79.8428
- Elevation
- 640 m above sea level
- Region
- Virginia
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 263 km away
What time is it in Switch Back, Virginia, United States
The current hour and minute in Switch Back, Virginia, United States are shown here, in the America/New_York zone (−4).
Switch Back, United States
Thursday, 29 October 2026
UTC−4 · America/New_York
Local time in Switch Back
UTC−4 · daylight saving time is active
What the clock shows right now in Switch Back.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:43 AM Solar noon 1:04 PM Sunset 6:25 PM Daylight 10 h 43 min Night 13 h 17 min Civil twilight 7:16 AM – 6:53 PM
Weather in Switch Back right now
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Switch Back and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 24412 Bacova — 4.6 km away
- 24445 Hot Springs — 6.0 km away
- 24460 Millboro — 9.7 km away
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.
Largest cities in Virginia
- Virginia Beach 454 808
- Norfolk 238 005
- Chesapeake 235 429
- Richmond 226 610
- Arlington 207 627
- Newport News 186 247
Same time zone — America/New_York
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- Manhattan United States
- The Bronx United States
Nearby places
- Thomastown — 0.6 km
- Crowdertown — 0.8 km
- Hot Springs — 1.8 km
- Mitchelltown — 2.8 km
- Bacova Junction — 2.8 km
- Dunns (historical) — 3.1 km
About the time in Switch Back
Postal codes assigned across Switch Back total 3.
Switch Back keeps time under America/New_York. That places it at UTC−4, with daylight saving time Yes.
The sun shows itself over Switch Back at 7:43 AM and sets at 6:25 PM today. That is 10 h 43 min of light.
Neighbouring places Thomastown and Crowdertown run on Switch Back time.
Questions and answers
- What time zone is used by Switch Back?
- Switch Back uses the America/New_York time zone, which has an offset of −4.
- Do I need to account for daylight saving time in Switch Back?
- Daylight saving time in Switch Back: Yes.
- What are the sunrise and sunset times in Switch Back?
- Sunrise 7:43 AM, sunset 6:25 PM.