Kanawha in numbers
- Coordinates
- 39.1990, -81.4601
- Elevation
- 194 m above sea level
- Region
- West Virginia
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 383 km away
- Same name
- 2 more places in the world share this name
Local time right now in Kanawha, West Virginia, United States appears above, in the America/New_York time zone (−5).
Kanawha, United States
Sunday, 8 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Kanawha
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Kanawha, West Virginia.
Sunrise 7:02 AM Solar noon 12:11 PM Sunset 5:19 PM Daylight 10 h 17 min Night 13 h 43 min Civil twilight 6:34 AM – 5:47 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.
Sorting mail for Kanawha involves 1 postal code.
Kanawha reads its time from America/New_York, placed at UTC−5. Whether daylight saving time is observed: No.
Kanawha greets the sun at 7:02 AM and loses it at 5:19 PM today. Daylight runs to 10 h 17 min.
The local time of Kanawha is shared by neighbouring Creels and Murphytown.