New Jersey
Where can you buy alcohol late in New Jersey?
Beer in New Jersey
Grocery and convenience stores
Your city or county sets these hours
New Jersey sets no statewide hours for bars and restaurants, or for beer and wine sold to take away. Your municipality decides. The one statewide rule is a ceiling on packaged distilled spirits: no earlier than 9 a.m. and no later than 10 p.m., and even that does not bind Newark or Jersey City.
Package stores
Your city or county sets these hours
New Jersey sets no statewide hours for bars and restaurants, or for beer and wine sold to take away. Your municipality decides. The one statewide rule is a ceiling on packaged distilled spirits: no earlier than 9 a.m. and no later than 10 p.m., and even that does not bind Newark or Jersey City.
Bars and restaurants
Your city or county sets these hours
New Jersey sets no statewide hours for bars and restaurants, or for beer and wine sold to take away. Your municipality decides. The one statewide rule is a ceiling on packaged distilled spirits: no earlier than 9 a.m. and no later than 10 p.m., and even that does not bind Newark or Jersey City.
Wine in New Jersey
Grocery and convenience stores
Your city or county sets these hours
New Jersey sets no statewide hours for bars and restaurants, or for beer and wine sold to take away. Your municipality decides. The one statewide rule is a ceiling on packaged distilled spirits: no earlier than 9 a.m. and no later than 10 p.m., and even that does not bind Newark or Jersey City.
Package stores
Your city or county sets these hours
New Jersey sets no statewide hours for bars and restaurants, or for beer and wine sold to take away. Your municipality decides. The one statewide rule is a ceiling on packaged distilled spirits: no earlier than 9 a.m. and no later than 10 p.m., and even that does not bind Newark or Jersey City.
Bars and restaurants
Your city or county sets these hours
New Jersey sets no statewide hours for bars and restaurants, or for beer and wine sold to take away. Your municipality decides. The one statewide rule is a ceiling on packaged distilled spirits: no earlier than 9 a.m. and no later than 10 p.m., and even that does not bind Newark or Jersey City.
Liquor in New Jersey
Package stores
| Day | Latest legal sale hours |
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Common questions
- What is the latest you can buy alcohol in New Jersey?
- The latest anything sells in New Jersey is 10 p.m., at package stores.
- Which shops stay open latest in New Jersey?
- Package stores, which the law lets run until 10 p.m.
Sources
- N.J.S.A. 33:1-40 (Municipal regulation of hours of sale)
- N.J.A.C. 13:2-38 (Limitation of hours for sale at retail of alcoholic beverages in original containers for off-premises consumption)
- N.J.S.A. 33:1-40.3 (Municipal regulation of hours of sale)
- New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control, Handbook for Retail Licensees
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