Local time · Kernersville
What time is it in Kernersville, North Carolina?
4:51:34AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 28,760
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Kernersville
Kernersville is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Kernersville sits at 36.11°N, 80.08°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Kernersville.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Kernersville it is highest at 12:04 pm today — 4 minutes after clock noon.
At 80.1°W, Kernersville sits 20 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 20 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Kernersville today
- Sunrise
- 6:55 am
- Sunset
- 5:13 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 19 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 37 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 19 minutes in Kernersville, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 55 minutes, from 14 hours 37 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 42 minutes in December.
At 36.1°N that puts Kernersville between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.