Local time · Fayetteville
What time is it in Fayetteville, North Carolina?
4:51:21AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 209,496
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Fayetteville
Fayetteville is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Fayetteville sits at 35.08°N, 78.97°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Fayetteville.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Fayetteville it is highest at 12:00 pm today — 0 minutes after clock noon.
At 79.0°W, Fayetteville 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 Fayetteville today
- Sunrise
- 6:48 am
- Sunset
- 5:11 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 23 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 31 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 23 minutes in Fayetteville, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 44 minutes, from 14 hours 31 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 47 minutes in December.
At 35.1°N that puts Fayetteville between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.