Cairo in numbers
- Coordinates
- 34.8846, -79.9328
- Elevation
- 126 m above sea level
- Region
- North Carolina
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 515 km away
- Same name
- 32 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Cairo, North Carolina, United States
This page reports the local time in Cairo, North Carolina, United States, set by the America/New_York time zone (−5).
Cairo, United States
Monday, 2 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Cairo
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Cairo keeps America/New_York clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:42 AM Solar noon 12:04 PM Sunset 5:26 PM Daylight 10 h 44 min Night 13 h 16 min Civil twilight 6:16 AM – 5:52 PM
Weather in Cairo right now
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Cairo and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 12413
- 26337
- 39827
- 39828
- 45820
- 62914
- 65239
- 68824
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 Cairo
- Cairo Cairo, Egypt
- Cairo Georgia, United States
- Cairo Illinois, United States
- Cairo New York, United States
- Cairo Nebraska, 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
- Old Sneedsboro — 5.8 km
- Gravelton — 6.2 km
- Morven — 6.6 km
- Diggs — 8.1 km
- Everetts Mill — 8.7 km
- Mcfarlan — 8.9 km
About the time in Cairo
Close to Cairo, the towns of Old Sneedsboro and Gravelton show the same time.
The mail network in Cairo covers 8 codes.
Local timekeeping in Cairo uses America/New_York, equal to UTC−5. Summer clock change: No.
Daylight arrives in Cairo at 6:42 AM and departs at 5:26 PM. It lasts 10 h 44 min today.
Questions and answers
- What time zone applies in Cairo?
- In Cairo, the applicable time zone is America/New_York, with an offset of −5.
- What time zone rules apply in Cairo — does the clock change for daylight saving time?
- Daylight saving time in Cairo: No.
- Can you tell me the sunset time in Cairo?
- In Cairo the sun sets at 5:26 PM.