Thornton in numbers
- Coordinates
- 39.3456, -79.9420
- Elevation
- 318 m above sea level
- Region
- West Virginia
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 256 km away
- Same name
- 44 more places in the world share this name
Below you can see what the time is in Thornton, West Virginia, United States now, in the America/New_York zone (−5).
Thornton, United States
Sunday, 1 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Thornton
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Thornton, West Virginia.
Sunrise 6:49 AM Solar noon 12:04 PM Sunset 5:20 PM Daylight 10 h 32 min Night 13 h 28 min Civil twilight 6:21 AM – 5:48 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.
Local time in Thornton comes from the America/New_York zone, UTC−5. Daylight saving time: No.
In Thornton the sun rises today at 6:49 AM and sets again at 5:20 PM. Daylight fills 10 h 32 min of the day.
The local time of Thornton is shared by neighbouring Lesmalinston and Knottsville.
The number of postal codes covering Thornton is 11.