When will the power be back in South Amboy, NJ?

South Amboy is a city of about 10,549 residents in Middlesex County.

JCP&L has reported outages for South Amboy by name on its own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-09-18) — so when South Amboy is affected, this page can show the city's own customers-out count and restoration time rather than only the county-wide total.

ZIP codes in South Amboy:

• 08879

Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.

Around South Amboy: the closest other places we track are Perth Amboy, about 2 miles to the north; Sayreville, about 3 miles to the southwest; Metuchen, about 6 miles to the northwest; and South River, about 6 miles to the southwest. Also nearby: Carteret (7 mi N), Highland Park (8 mi W), Rahway (8 mi N), New Brunswick (9 mi W), South Plainfield (9 mi NW), Linden (10 mi N), Plainfield (11 mi NW) and Roselle (12 mi N).

Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Westfield (12 mi); northeast toward Bayonne (15 mi); southeast toward Red Bank (15 mi); south toward Freehold (16 mi); southwest toward Princeton (22 mi); west toward Bound Brook (15 mi); and northwest toward North Plainfield (13 mi).