Local time · Wilmington
What time is it in Wilmington, 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
- 125,284
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Wilmington
Wilmington is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Wilmington sits at 34.21°N, 77.89°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Wilmington.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Wilmington it is highest at 11:55 am today — 5 minutes before clock noon.
At 77.9°W, Wilmington 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 Wilmington today
- Sunrise
- 6:42 am
- Sunset
- 5:08 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 26 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 26 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 26 minutes in Wilmington, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 34 minutes, from 14 hours 26 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 52 minutes in December.
At 34.2°N that puts Wilmington between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.