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What time is it in Chesapeake, West Virginia, United States

The local time in Chesapeake, West Virginia, United States — in the America/New_York time zone (−5) — is shown on this page.

Chesapeake, United States

Monday, 2 November 2026

UTC−5 · America/New_York

Local time in Chesapeake

UTC−5 · no daylight saving time

Local time in Chesapeake, West Virginia.

The sun today

Sunrise 6:54 AM Solar noon 12:11 PM Sunset 5:27 PM Daylight 10 h 33 min Night 13 h 27 min Civil twilight 6:27 AM – 5:55 PM

Weather in Chesapeake right now

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Chesapeake and its neighbours

Marmet Dickinson Dupont City Hernshaw Shrewsbury Chesapeake
Chesapeake at 38.2234, -81.5362 with the nearest towns within 6.9 km · open in OpenStreetMap

Postal codes

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.

Chesapeake in numbers

Coordinates
38.2234, -81.5362
Elevation
185 m above sea level
Population
1 502
Country
United States, North America
Capital
Washington, D.C. — 398 km away
Same name
5 more places in the world share this name

Largest cities in West Virginia

Other places named Chesapeake

Same time zone — America/New_York

Nearby places

Time and daylight in Chesapeake

The sun comes up over Chesapeake at 6:54 AM today and drops below the horizon at 5:27 PM. That is 10 h 33 min between the two.

Neighbouring Belle and Diamond sit in the same time as Chesapeake.

Chesapeake is split into 10 postal code areas.

Chesapeake uses the America/New_York time zone with a UTC−5 offset. Whether daylight saving time is used: No.

Questions and answers

Which time zone setting matches Chesapeake?
The time zone setting that matches Chesapeake is America/New_York, with an offset of −5.
Does Chesapeake take part in daylight saving time?
Daylight saving time in Chesapeake: No.
When is the sun down in Chesapeake?
The sun goes down at 5:27 PM.
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