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What time is it in Brightwood, North Carolina, United States

This page shows what the clocks read right now in Brightwood, North Carolina, United States, in the America/New_York zone (−5).

Brightwood, United States

Wednesday, 4 November 2026

UTC−5 · America/New_York

Local time in Brightwood

UTC−5 · no daylight saving time

Local time in Brightwood, North Carolina.

The sun today

Sunrise 6:46 AM Solar noon 12:04 PM Sunset 5:22 PM Daylight 10 h 36 min Night 13 h 24 min Civil twilight 6:19 AM – 5:48 PM

Weather in Brightwood right now

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Brightwood and its neighbours

Koontzville Rankin Broadview East White Oak Rudd Brookwood Gardens Brightwood
Brightwood at 36.1329, -79.7595 with the nearest towns within 5.5 km · open in OpenStreetMap

Postal codes

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.

Brightwood in numbers

Coordinates
36.1329, -79.7595
Elevation
244 m above sea level
Country
United States, North America
Capital
Washington, D.C. — 390 km away
Same name
11 more places in the world share this name

Largest cities in North Carolina

Other places named Brightwood

Same time zone — America/New_York

Nearby places

Time and daylight in Brightwood

2 postal codes describe the layout of Brightwood.

Time in Brightwood follows the zone America/New_York, offset UTC−5. Seasonal clock shift: No.

Look for sunrise at 6:46 AM and sunset at 5:22 PM in Brightwood today. The day carries 10 h 36 min of light.

Koontzville and Rankin, both nearby, hold the same time as Brightwood.

Questions and answers

What time zone corresponds to Brightwood?
America/New_York corresponds to Brightwood and has an offset of −5.
Does Brightwood change its clocks twice a year?
Daylight saving time in Brightwood: No.
When does daylight begin in Brightwood?
Daylight begins at 6:46 AM.
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