What time is it in Chapel Hill, North Carolina?

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

Chapel Hill sits at 35.93°N, 79.04°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Chapel Hill.

The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Chapel Hill it is highest at 1:07 pm today — 67 minutes after clock noon.

At 79.0°W, Chapel Hill 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 Chapel Hill, 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 Chapel Hill between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.