Dayton in numbers
- Coordinates
- 39.3129, -79.5873
- Elevation
- 835 m above sea level
- Region
- West Virginia
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 225 km away
- Same name
- 36 more places in the world share this name
Learn the current time in Dayton, West Virginia, United States, a place in the America/New_York time zone (−5).
Dayton, United States
Tuesday, 3 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Dayton
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Dayton keeps America/New_York clock_time.
Sunrise 6:49 AM Solar noon 12:03 PM Sunset 5:17 PM Daylight 10 h 27 min Night 13 h 33 min Civil twilight 6:22 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.
Within Dayton, postal codes number 12.
Dayton works to America/New_York time, set at UTC−5. Daylight saving time applies: No.
In Dayton today the sun is out from 6:49 AM until 5:17 PM. That comes to 10 h 27 min of daylight.
Time runs the same in Dayton and in nearby Aurora and Carmel.