The Columns in numbers
- Coordinates
- 38.4832, -77.4252
- Elevation
- 87 m above sea level
- Region
- Virginia
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 57 km away
- Same name
- 1 more places in the world share this name
The clock for The Columns, Virginia, United States is kept here in the America/New_York time zone (−5).
The Columns, United States
Tuesday, 10 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in The Columns
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
The Columns keeps America/New_York clock_time.
Sunrise 6:47 AM Solar noon 11:55 AM Sunset 5:03 PM Daylight 10 h 16 min Night 13 h 44 min Civil twilight 6:19 AM – 5:31 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.
The Columns, Garrisonville and Aquia all run on one and the same time.
The Columns is mapped by 11 postal codes.
The time zone here in The Columns is America/New_York, offset UTC−5. Does daylight saving apply? No.
The Columns has sunrise at 6:47 AM today and sunset at 5:03 PM. Light holds for 10 h 16 min.