Local time · Matthews
What time is it in Matthews, North Carolina?
4:50:51AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 32,048
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Matthews
Matthews is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Matthews sits at 35.12°N, 80.71°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Matthews.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Matthews it is highest at 12:07 pm today — 7 minutes after clock noon.
At 80.7°W, Matthews sits 23 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 23 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Matthews today
- Sunrise
- 6:55 am
- Sunset
- 5:18 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 22 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 31 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 22 minutes in Matthews, 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 Matthews between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.