Local time · Durham
What time is it in Durham, North Carolina?
4:50:31AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 301,870
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Durham
Durham is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Durham sits at 35.98°N, 78.90°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Durham.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Durham it is highest at 11:59 am today — 1 minutes before clock noon.
At 78.9°W, Durham sits 16 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 16 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Durham today
- Sunrise
- 6:50 am
- Sunset
- 5:09 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 19 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 36 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 19 minutes in Durham, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 54 minutes, from 14 hours 36 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 43 minutes in December.
At 36.0°N that puts Durham between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.