US Election voting time: What is the voting start and close time for each US state, check full list

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When will the polls open in the United States?

The polls will open as early as 5 am ET on the East Coast in certain locations in Vermont and polling places in all or parts of five more states open at 6 am ET. There will be no in-person polling stations in Oregon as it is a mail-by-vote state.

Here is the exact time of polls opening in various states:

Vermont: Between 5 am to 10 am ET (depending upon the town the voter is voting from)

Connecticut: 6 am ET

Kentucky: 6 am ET (In the West, polling sites will open at 7 a.m. ET)

Maine: 6 am ET (Polling locations open between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. depending on town population.)

New Jersey: 6 am ET

New York: 6 am ET

Virginia: 6 am ET

North Carolina: 6:30 am ET

Ohio: 6:30 am ET

West Virginia: 6:30 am ET

Alabama: 7 am ET

Delaware: 7 am ET

District of Columbia: 7 am ET

Florida: 7 am ET (8 a.m. ET in parts of the Florida Panhandle on Central time)

Georgia: 7 am ET

New Hampshire: 7 am ET (Opening times vary by county with the earliest starting at 7 a.m. ET)

Illinois: 7 am ET

Indiana: 7 am ET

Kansas: 7 am (Varies by county)

Louisiana: 7 am ET

Maryland: 7 am ET

Massachusetts: 7 am ET

Michigan: 7 am ET (Polling sites in four Upper Peninsula counties open at 8 a.m. ET)

Missouri: 7 am ET

Pennsylvania: 7 am ET

Rhode Island: 7 am ET (Polls in New Shoreham open at 9 a.m. ET)

South Carolina: 7 am ET

Wyoming: 7 am ET

Arizona: 8 am ET

Iowa: 8 am ET

Minnesota: 8 am ET (Counties with a population of less than 500 are not required to open until 11 a.m. ET)

Mississippi: 8 am ET

Oklahoma: 8 am ET

North Dakota: 8 am ET (Polls start opening at 8 a.m. ET and vary by county)

South Dakota: 8 am ET (Polling locations in the west open at 9 a.m. ET)

Tennessee: 8 am ET

Texas: 8 am ET (Polling sites in three western counties open at 9 a.m. ET)

Wisconsin: 8 am ET

Arkansas: 8:30 am ET

Colorado: 9 am ET

Montana: 9 am ET (Polling sites in counties with less than 400 registered voters can open as late as 2 p.m. ET)

Nebraska: 9 am ET

Nevada: 9 am ET (Polling sites open at 10 a.m. ET except for City Hall in West Wendover)

New Mexico: 9 am ET

Utah: 9 am ET

California: 10 am ET

Idaho: 10 am ET (Polling location in North will open at 11 am ET)

Washington: 11 am ET (Most of the voting is done by mail, thus it will vary by county)

Alaska: 11 am ET (except for Adak)

Hawaii: 12 pm ET

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When will the polls close in the United States?

The polls will first begin to close in the states on the Eastern counties of Indiana and Kentucky at 6 pm ET. This will be followed by the remaining of those along with Georgia, Vermont and Virginia at 7 PM.

Here is the exact time of polls closing in various states:

Georgia: 7 pm ET

Indiana: 7 pm ET (Polls close at 6 p.m. ET in the 80 counties in the Eastern time zone)

Kentucky: 7 pm ET (Polls close at 6 p.m. ET for the 79 counties in the eastern part of the state)

South Carolina: 7 pm ET

Vermont: 7 pm ET

Virginia: 7 pm ET

North Carolina: 7:30 pm ET

Ohio: 7:30 pm ET

West Virginia: 7:30 pm ET

Alabama: 8 pm ET

Connecticut: 8 pm ET

Delaware: 8 pm ET

District of Columbia: 8 pm ET

Florida: 8 pm ET (Polls in Eastern time zone close at 7 p.m. ET; part of Panhandle are in Central time zone)

Illinois: 8 pm ET

Maine: 8 pm ET

Maryland: 8 pm ET

Massachusetts: 8 pm ET

Mississippi: 8 pm ET

Missouri: 8 pm ET

New Hampshire: 8 pm ET (Polling hours vary by municipality)

New Jersey: 8 pm ET

Oklahoma: 8 pm ET

Pennsylvania: 8 pm ET

Rhode Island: 8 pm ET

Tennessee: 8 pm ET

Arkansas: 8:30 pm ET

Arizona: 9 pm ET

Colorado: 9 pm ET

Iowa: 9 pm ET

Kansas: 9 pm ET (Polling locations close at 8 p.m. ET in all except four counties in the west)

Louisiana: 9 pm ET

Michigan: 9 pm ET (Polling locations close at 8 p.m. ET in all except four counties)

Minnesota: 9 pm ET

Nebraska: 9 pm ET

New Mexico: 9 pm ET

New York: 9 pm ET

North Dakota: 9 pm ET (Polls close at 8 p.m. ET in all but eight counties)

South Dakota: 9 pm ET (Polls close at 8 p.m. ET in the east)

Texas: 9 pm ET (Polls close at 8 p.m. ET for most of the state except three counties in the west)

Wisconsin: 9 pm ET

Wyoming: 9 pm ET

Montana: 10 pm ET

Nevada: 10 pm ET (The polling location at City Hall in West Wendover closes at 9 p.m. ET)

Utah: 10 pm ET

California: 11 pm ET

Idaho: 11 pm ET (Polling locations in the south close at 10 p.m. ET)

Oregon: 11 pm ET (Polling locations in Malheur County close at 10 p.m. ET)

Washington: 11 pm ET

Hawaii: 12 am ET

Alaska: 1 am ET (Polling locations close at midnight except for Adak)