Every ZIP code in the United States, with weather, radar, trivia and the numbers behind it. Five digits since 1963!

ZIP stands for Zone Improvement Plan. The codes went live on July 1, 1963.The lowest ZIP code is 00501 — the IRS in Holtsville, New York.The highest ZIP code is 99950, in Ketchikan, Alaska.Type 07734 into a calculator and turn it upside down: hELLO. It is Keansburg, New Jersey.12345 belongs to one company: General Electric in Schenectady, New York.The first digit is a region: 0 is New England and New Jersey, 9 is the West Coast, Alaska and Hawaii.Mr. ZIP, the cartoon mailman, was the mascot that sold the idea to America.ZIP+4 arrived in 1983 and can narrow a ZIP down to one side of one block.A ZIP code is a mail route, not a place: plenty of them cross county and even state lines.Play ZIP Hunt: guess the secret ZIP code of the day in six tries.
zipcodes.pro — ZIP/09261

09261

ZIP 09261 is military mail, not a town: APO AE, the Armed Forces Europe routing code, which covers Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Canada. APO is the Army and Air Force Post Office. Mail to it carries a unit or ship number instead of a street, at domestic US postage.

Type
Military (APO/FPO/DPO)
Time zone
Europe/Berlin
County
none
Metro area
none
Coordinates
51.7391, 6.2910
☼ Live from 09261 — APO AE

Weather right now

Asking the National Weather Service…

NEXRAD radar
Finding the nearest radar…
Local time: —

Where 09261 is

This ZIP code has no Census tabulation area, so there is no boundary to draw — the marker is its published point location.

★ Weird and wonderful facts about 09261
  • 🔢 Type 09261 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: IgZGO — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 9,261 = 3 × 3 × 3 × 7 × 7 × 7. Its digits add up to 18, a total 2,332 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 10010000101101
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 09259 (APO AE, a military post office, 362 mi away) and 09262 (APO AE, a military post office, 147 mi away). Next door on paper, a road trip in real life.
  • 🔄 Backwards, 09261 becomes 16290, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 54 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (02169, 02196, 02916, 06129, 06912, 06921, …). The farthest-flung twin is 92106 in San Diego, CA, 5,676 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther north than 99% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 98%.
  • 🎯4,672 miles northeast of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 09261 and you would come out at 51.74°S, 173.71°W — 849 miles from Christchurch, New Zealand, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 16h 41m of daylight. Shortest: 7h 47m.
🌙 The sky over 09261 today
  • Working out the sun…
🌋 Shake report
  • Checking the USGS…

Source: USGS.

Land area

ZIP codes near 09261

ZIPCityDistance
09103 APO AE, AE 39.0 mi
09233 APO AE, AE 41.4 mi
09104 APO AE, AE 53.8 mi
09703 APO AE, AE 56.5 mi
09078 APO AE, AE 59.0 mi
09171 APO AE, AE 59.0 mi
09072 APO AE, AE 62.6 mi
09713 APO AE, AE 66.8 mi
09717 APO AE, AE 66.8 mi
09080 APO AE, AE 81.9 mi

Find every ZIP code within 10 miles of 09261 →

Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 09261?

ZIP 09261 is military mail, not a town: APO AE, the Armed Forces Europe routing code, which covers Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Canada. APO is the Army and Air Force Post Office. Mail to it carries a unit or ship number instead of a street, at domestic US postage.

What county is 09261 in?

09261 belongs to no county — military ZIP codes are mail routing codes, not places.

What ZIP codes are near 09261?

The closest are 09103 (39 mi), 09233 (41.4 mi), 09104 (53.8 mi), 09703 (56.5 mi) and 09078 (59 mi).

Is 09261 a PO Box ZIP code?

09261 is a military (apo/fpo/dpo) ZIP code. A USPS routing code for military mail, not a geographic area.

Download or cite

Cite this page

zipcodes.pro. “09261 ZIP Code — APO AE, Armed Forces Europe (Military Mail).” Data release 2026-10-12. Retrieved 2026-10-20. https://zipcodes.pro/zip/09261

Machine-readable version of these facts:

curl https://zipcodes.pro/zip/09261.json

Underlying data is public domain or openly licensed — sources, vintages and licences.