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The Current Local Date and Time in Princeton, United States (US)

Time Zone America/New_York

03:02:08

Local Time Date and Timezone

Where is Princeton? (United States, US)

Princeton is a city located in United States (US).
Latitude 40.34872 Longitude -74.65905

Princeton location on the United States (US) map

Information about Princeton

City: Princeton
Country: United States (US)
Latitude: 40.34872
Longitude: -74.65905
Time Zone: America/New_York

Time zone and UTC offset ofPrinceton

Princeton, United States is in the America/New_York time zone, which is currently UTC-4. This time zone observes daylight saving time (currently in effect). The next clock change is on November 1, 2026.

Current time difference with other cities

Princeton is 5 hours behind London
Princeton is 3 hours ahead of Los Angeles
Princeton is 8 hours behind Dubai
Princeton is 13 hours behind Tokyo
Princeton is 15 hours behind Sydney

Frequently asked questions about time inPrinceton

What time zone is Princeton in?

Princeton, United States is in the America/New_York time zone (currently UTC-4).

Does Princeton observe daylight saving time?

Yes, the clocks change during the year in this time zone.

What are the coordinates of Princeton?

Princeton is located at latitude 40.34872 and longitude -74.65905.

Sunrise, sunset and moon phase inPrinceton today

Astronomical data for October 16, 2026 in Princeton, calculated for the America/New_York time zone. All times are local.

Sun

Sunrise: 07:11
Solar noon: 12:44
Sunset: 18:17
Length of day: 11 h 7 min

Moon

Moon phase: Waxing Crescent
Illumination: 28%
Moon age: about 5.3 days
Moonrise: 13:13
Moonset: 22:01

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City of Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. The institution moved to Newark in 1747 and then to its Mercer County campus in Princeton nine years later. It officially became a university in 1896 and was subsequently renamed Princeton University. The university is governed by the Trustees of Princeton University and has an endowment of $37.7 billion, the largest endowment per student in the United States. Princeton provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering to approximately 9,000 students on its main campus spanning 600 acres (2.4 km2) within the borough of Princeton. It offers postgraduate degrees through the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the School of Architecture and the Bendheim Center for Finance. The university also manages the Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and is home to the NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and has one of the largest university libraries in the world. Princeton uses a residential college system and is known for its eating clubs for juniors and seniors. The university has over 500 student organizations. Princeton students embrace a wide variety of traditions from both the past and present. The university is an NCAA Division I school and competes in the Ivy League. The school's athletic team, the Princeton Tigers, has won the most titles in its conference and has sent many students and alumni to the Olympics. As of October 2025, 81 Nobel laureates, 16 Fields Medalists and 17 Turing Award laureates have been affiliated with Princeton University as alumni, faculty members, or researchers. In addition, Princeton has been associated with 21 National Medal of Science awardees, five Abel Prize awardees, a Dan David Prize awardee, 11 National Humanities Medal recipients, 217 Rhodes Scholars, 137 Marshall Scholars, and 62 Gates Cambridge Scholars. Two U.S. presidents, twelve U.S. Supreme Court justices (three of whom serve on the court as of 2026) and numerous living industry and media tycoons and foreign heads of state are all counted among Princeton's alumni body. Princeton has graduated many members of the U.S. Congress and the U.S. Cabinet, including eight secretaries of state, three secretaries of defense and two chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Princeton alumni also include 113 athletes who competed in the Olympics, winning 19 gold medals, 24 silver medals, and 23 bronze medals.
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