Local time · Winston-Salem
What time is it in Winston-Salem, North Carolina?
4:51:30AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 255,769
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Winston-Salem
Winston-Salem is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Winston-Salem sits at 36.10°N, 80.26°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Winston-Salem.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Winston-Salem it is highest at 12:05 pm today — 5 minutes after clock noon.
At 80.3°W, Winston-Salem sits 21 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 21 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Winston-Salem today
- Sunrise
- 6:56 am
- Sunset
- 5:14 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 19 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 37 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 19 minutes in Winston-Salem, 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 Winston-Salem between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.