Local time · Goldsboro
What time is it in Goldsboro, North Carolina?
4:51:28AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 34,629
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Goldsboro
Goldsboro is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Goldsboro sits at 35.38°N, 77.97°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Goldsboro.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Goldsboro it is highest at 11:56 am today — 4 minutes before clock noon.
At 78.0°W, Goldsboro sits 12 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 12 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Goldsboro today
- Sunrise
- 6:45 am
- Sunset
- 5:06 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 22 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 33 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 22 minutes in Goldsboro, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 47 minutes, from 14 hours 33 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 46 minutes in December.
At 35.4°N that puts Goldsboro between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.