Local time · Cary
What time is it in Cary, North Carolina?
4:50:36AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 182,659
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Cary
Cary is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Cary sits at 35.78°N, 78.82°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Cary.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Cary it is highest at 11:59 am today — 1 minutes before clock noon.
At 78.8°W, Cary sits 15 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 15 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Cary today
- Sunrise
- 6:49 am
- Sunset
- 5:09 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 20 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 35 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 20 minutes in Cary, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 51 minutes, from 14 hours 35 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 44 minutes in December.
At 35.8°N that puts Cary between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.