What time is it in Carrboro, North Carolina?
8:56:04 AM
Friday, September 25, 2026. Eastern Daylight Time, UTC−4:00.
- Time zone
- Eastern Daylight Time
- UTC offset
- UTC−4:00
- Daylight saving
- In force now
- Population
- 21,079
Daylight saving in Carrboro
Carrboro is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Carrboro sits at 35.93°N, 79.09°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Carrboro.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Carrboro it is highest at 1:07 pm today — 67 minutes after clock noon.
At 79.1°W, Carrboro 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.
Daylight in Carrboro today
- Sunrise
- 7:06 am
- Sunset
- 7:09 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 36 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in Carrboro, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 53 minutes, from 14 hours 36 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 43 minutes in December.
At 35.9°N that puts Carrboro between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.