Local time · Asheville
What time is it in Asheville, North Carolina?
4:51:26AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 94,992
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Asheville
Asheville is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Asheville sits at 35.57°N, 82.55°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Asheville.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Asheville it is highest at 12:14 pm today — 14 minutes after clock noon.
At 82.6°W, Asheville sits 30 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 30 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Asheville today
- Sunrise
- 7:04 am
- Sunset
- 5:24 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 21 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 34 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 21 minutes in Asheville, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 49 minutes, from 14 hours 34 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 45 minutes in December.
At 35.6°N that puts Asheville between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.