■ Times for Sun and Moon rise and set, bright complex calculations for different locales, star transits, and planetary observations are times may not be precise to the minute.) If given for Boston on pages 114– 140, 100, and your city is not listed, use the figures for the 102– 103, respectively. Use the Key Letter city closest to you in latitude and longitude. shown to the right of each time on those pages Boston’s latitude is 42° 22' and its longitude with this table to find the number of minutes is 71° 03'. Selected Canadian cities are at the (adjusted for location and time zone) that you end of the table. For more information on the must add to or subtract from Boston time to get use of Key Letters and this table, see How to Use the correct time for your city. (Because of This Almanac, page 110.
TIME ZONES: Codes represent standard time. Atlantic is – 1, Eastern is 0, Central is 1, Mountain is 2,
Pacific is 3, Alaska is 4, and Hawaii-Aleutian is 5.
North West Time Key Letters Latitude Longitude Zone B C D
State City ° ' ° ' Code (min.) (min.) (min.)
AK Anchorage . . . . . . . . . . . 61 10 149 59 4 + 27 + 71 + 122
AK Cordova . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 33 145 45 4 + 13 + 55 + 103
AK Fairbanks . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 48 147 51 4 + 2 + 61 + 131
AK Juneau. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 18 134 25 4 – 23 + 10 + 49
AK Ketchikan . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 21 131 39 4 – 25 0 + 29
AK Kodiak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 47 152 24 4 + 49 + 82 + 120
AL Birmingham . . . . . . . . . . 33 31 86 49 1 + 15 + 3 – 10
AL Decatur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 36 86 59 1 + 14 + 4 – 7
ALMobile..............3042 88 3 1 + 23 + 8 – 8
AL Montgomery. . . . . . . . . . 32 23 86 19 1 + 14 + 1 – 13
AR Fort Smith . . . . . . . . . . . 35 23 94 25 1 + 43 + 33 + 22
AR Little Rock . . . . . . . . . . . 34 45 92 17 1 + 35 + 25 + 13
AR Texarkana. . . . . . . . . . . . 33 26 94 3 1 + 44 + 32 + 18
AZ Flagstaff . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 12 111 39 2 + 52 + 42 + 31
AZ Phoenix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 27 112 4 2 + 56 + 44 + 30
AZ Tucson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 13 110 58 2 + 53 + 40 + 24
AZ Yuma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 43 114 37 2 + 67 + 54 + 40
CA Bakersfield. . . . . . . . . . . 35 23 119 1 3 + 21 + 12 + 1
CA Barstow . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 54 117 1 3 + 14 + 4 – 7
CA Fresno. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 44 119 47 3 + 22 + 15 + 6
CA Los Angeles–Pasadena–
Santa Monica . . . . . . . . . 34 3 118 14 3 + 20 + 9 – 3
CA Palm Springs . . . . . . . . . 33 49 116 32 3 + 13 + 1 – 12
CA Redding . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 35 122 24 3 + 27 + 25 + 22
CA Sacramento. . . . . . . . . . . 38 35 121 30 3 + 27 + 21 + 15
CA San Diego. . . . . . . . . . . . 32 43 117 9 3 + 17 + 4 – 9
CA San Francisco–Oakland–
San Jose . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 47 122 25 3 + 31 + 25 + 18
CO Craig. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 31 107 33 2 + 28 + 25 + 22
CO Denver–Boulder . . . . . . 39 44 104 59 2 + 19 + 15 + 11
CO Grand Junction. . . . . . . . 39 4 108 33 2 + 34 + 29 + 24
CO Pueblo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 16 104 37 2 + 20 + 14 + 7
CO Trinidad . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 10 104 31 2 + 21 + 13 + 5
CT Bridgeport . . . . . . . . . . . 41 11 73 11 0 + 10 + 8 + 6
CT Hartford–New Britain . . 41 46 72 41 0 + 7 + 6 + 5
CT New Haven. . . . . . . . . . . 41 18 72 56 0 + 8 + 7 + 5
CT New London. . . . . . . . . . 41 22 72 6 0 + 5 + 4 + 2
CT Norwalk–Stamford . . . . 41 7 73 22 0 + 10 + 9 + 7
CT Waterbury–Meriden. . . . 41 33 73 3 0 + 9 + 7 + 6
DC Washington . . . . . . . . . . 38 54 77 1 0 + 28 + 23 + 18
DE Wilmington . . . . . . . . . . 39 45 75 33 0 + 21 + 18 + 13
A
(min.)
– 46
– 55
– 127
– 76
– 62
0 + 30 + 27 + 42 + 31 + 55 + 48 + 59 + 64 + 71 + 70 + 83 + 33 + 27 + 32
+ 34
+ 28
+ 31
+ 34
+ 33
+ 40
+ 32
+ 24
+ 40
+ 27
+ 30
+ 12
+ 8
+ 11
+ 7
+ 13
+ 10
+ 35
+ 26
E
(min.)
+ 171 + 149 + 205 + 86 + 56 + 154 – 20 – 17 – 22 – 25 + 14
+ 4
+ 8
+ 22
+ 20
+ 12
+ 28
– 7
– 16
0
– 13
– 22
+ 19
+ 10
– 21
+ 12
+ 20
+ 7
+ 20
+ 2
0
+ 4
+ 4
+ 4
+ 1
+ 5
+ 5
+ 13
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