Bethesda in numbers
- Coordinates
- 35.8796, -80.2409
- Elevation
- 240 m above sea level
- Region
- North Carolina
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 439 km away
- Same name
- 25 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Bethesda, North Carolina, United States
See the local time in Bethesda, North Carolina, United States right now, measured in the America/New_York time zone (−5).
Bethesda, United States
Wednesday, 11 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Bethesda
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Bethesda, North Carolina.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:54 AM Solar noon 12:06 PM Sunset 5:18 PM Daylight 10 h 24 min Night 13 h 36 min Civil twilight 6:27 AM – 5:45 PM
Weather in Bethesda right now
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Bethesda and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 20810
- 20811
- 20813
- 20814
- 20816
- 20817
- 20824
- 20827
- 20889
- 20892
- 20894
- 43719
Postal codes come from the free GeoNames dataset. Where a code is listed with a distance, it belongs to a nearby settlement — GeoNames spells that name differently from ours.
Largest cities in North Carolina
- Charlotte 911 311
- Raleigh 482 295
- West Raleigh 338 759
- Greensboro 285 342
- Durham 257 636
- Winston-Salem 241 218
Other places named Bethesda
- Bethesda Maryland, United States
- Bethesda Wales, United Kingdom
- Bethesda Ohio, United States
- Bethesda Saint Paul Parish, Antigua And Barbuda
- Bethesda Arkansas, United States
Same time zone — America/New_York
- New York City United States
- Brooklyn United States
- Queens United States
- Philadelphia United States
- Manhattan United States
- The Bronx United States
Nearby places
- Bryans Woods — 2.3 km
- Welcome — 3.0 km
- Ebenezers — 3.3 km
- Arnold — 3.9 km
- Jakesville — 4.5 km
- Erlanger — 4.7 km
Local time details for Bethesda
Close to Bethesda, the towns of Bryans Woods and Welcome show the same time.
Bethesda is split into 12 postal code areas.
Bethesda stands in America/New_York, an offset of UTC−5 from Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving: No.
Sunrise today in Bethesda lands at 6:54 AM; sunset lands at 5:18 PM. That is 10 h 24 min of light.
Questions and answers
- What time zone is assigned to Bethesda?
- Bethesda is assigned to the America/New_York time zone, with an offset of −5.
- Are daylight saving rules used in Bethesda?
- Daylight saving time in Bethesda: No.
- At what hour does the sun rise in Bethesda?
- At 6:54 AM.