Sylvester in numbers
- Coordinates
- 38.0104, -81.5576
- Elevation
- 264 m above sea level
- Population
- 153
- Region
- West Virginia
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 406 km away
- Same name
- 7 more places in the world share this name
Get the current local time in Sylvester, West Virginia, United States, a location in the America/New_York time zone (−5).
Sylvester, United States
Tuesday, 3 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Sylvester
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Sylvester.
Sunrise 6:55 AM Solar noon 12:11 PM Sunset 5:27 PM Daylight 10 h 32 min Night 13 h 28 min Civil twilight 6:28 AM – 5:54 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.
The area of Sylvester is divided into 3 postal codes.
Sylvester marks time with America/New_York at an offset of UTC−5. Does the area change clocks seasonally? No.
The sun rises at 6:55 AM above Sylvester and sets at 5:27 PM today. Daylight lasts about 10 h 32 min.
Nearby settlements including Janie and Keith match the time in Sylvester.