Local time · Kinston
What time is it in Kinston, North Carolina?
4:50:57AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 19,519
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Kinston
Kinston is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Kinston sits at 35.28°N, 77.59°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Kinston.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Kinston it is highest at 11:54 am today — 6 minutes before clock noon.
At 77.6°W, Kinston sits 10 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 10 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Kinston today
- Sunrise
- 6:43 am
- Sunset
- 5:05 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 22 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 32 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 22 minutes in Kinston, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 46 minutes, from 14 hours 32 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 46 minutes in December.
At 35.3°N that puts Kinston between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.