What time is it in Boone, North Carolina?

Boone is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.

Boone sits at 36.21°N, 81.67°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Boone.

The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Boone it is highest at 1:18 pm today — 78 minutes after clock noon.

At 81.7°W, Boone sits well toward the western edge of its zone, which is why the sun stays up later here than the clock suggests. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.

Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in Boone, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 56 minutes, from 14 hours 38 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 41 minutes in December.

At 36.2°N that puts Boone between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.