Alta in numbers
- Coordinates
- 37.8696, -80.5429
- Elevation
- 754 m above sea level
- Region
- West Virginia
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 326 km away
- Same name
- 19 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Alta, West Virginia, United States
This page shows the current local time in Alta, West Virginia, United States, in the America/New_York time zone (−5).
Alta, United States
Sunday, 8 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Alta
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Alta, West Virginia.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:56 AM Solar noon 12:07 PM Sunset 5:18 PM Daylight 10 h 22 min Night 13 h 38 min Civil twilight 6:29 AM – 5:46 PM
Weather in Alta right now
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Alta and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 51002
- 83414
- 95701
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 West Virginia
- Huntington 48 638
- Charleston 46 838
- Parkersburg 30 991
- Morgantown 30 708
- Wheeling 27 648
- Weirton Heights 19 450
Other places named Alta
- Alta Troms og Finnmark, Norway
- Alta Stockholm, Sweden
- Alta Iowa, United States
- Alta California, United States
- Alta Wyoming, United States
Same time zone — America/New_York
- New York City United States
- Brooklyn United States
- Queens United States
- Philadelphia United States
- Manhattan United States
- The Bronx United States
Nearby places
- Hughart — 3.7 km
- Richlands — 5.3 km
- Clintonville — 5.6 km
- Asbury — 5.7 km
- Morlunda — 6.2 km
- Cornstalk — 8.6 km
About the time in Alta
Every address in Alta sits within one of 3 postal codes.
Alta stands in America/New_York, an offset of UTC−5 from Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving: No.
The sun rises today at 6:56 AM in Alta and sets at 5:18 PM. Daylight covers 10 h 22 min.
Check Alta and you have also checked Hughart and Richlands.
Questions and answers
- What time zone covers Alta?
- The time zone covering Alta is America/New_York, with an offset of −5.
- Do the clocks in Alta go back at any point?
- No.
- What time does the sun set in Alta?
- The sun sets in Alta at 5:18 PM.