Foster in numbers
- Coordinates
- 38.0973, -81.7798
- Elevation
- 268 m above sea level
- Region
- West Virginia
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 422 km away
- Same name
- 28 more places in the world share this name
The time in Foster, West Virginia, United States at this very moment is shown below, in the America/New_York zone (−5).
Foster, United States
Monday, 2 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Foster
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Foster.
Sunrise 6:55 AM Solar noon 12:12 PM Sunset 5:29 PM Daylight 10 h 34 min Night 13 h 26 min Civil twilight 6:28 AM – 5:56 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.
Sun-up in Foster is 6:55 AM today and sun-down is 5:29 PM. That gap holds 10 h 34 min of daylight.
The local time of Foster is shared by neighbouring Madison and Danville.
The full list of postal codes for Foster runs to 7.
Foster lies in the America/New_York time zone, offset UTC−5. Seasonal adjustment of clocks: No.