Cape Fear in numbers
- Coordinates
- 35.4252, -78.8147
- Elevation
- 49 m above sea level
- Region
- North Carolina
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 417 km away
What time is it in Cape Fear, North Carolina, United States
Find out what time it is now in Cape Fear, North Carolina, United States — the local clock runs on America/New_York (−4).
Cape Fear, United States
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC−4 · America/New_York
Local time in Cape Fear
UTC−4 · daylight saving time is active
Cape Fear keeps America/New_York clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:23 AM Solar noon 1:02 PM Sunset 6:40 PM Daylight 11 h 17 min Night 12 h 43 min Civil twilight 6:58 AM – 7:06 PM
Weather in Cape Fear right now
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Cape Fear and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 27543 Kipling — 6.1 km away
- 27506 Buies Creek — 7.3 km away
- 27501 Angier — 10.8 km away
- 27552 Mamers — 10.8 km away
- 28323 Bunnlevel — 12.8 km away
- 27546 Lillington — 14.2 km away
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
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
- Lillington — 2.9 km
- Shawtown — 4.8 km
- Kipling — 6.1 km
- Luart — 6.7 km
- Buies Creek — 7.3 km
- Senter — 8.0 km
About the time in Cape Fear
Across Cape Fear, 6 postal codes are recorded.
Local clocks in Cape Fear follow the America/New_York zone, UTC−4. Do they shift for daylight saving? Yes.
Today Cape Fear gets sunrise at 7:23 AM and sunset at 6:40 PM. That leaves 11 h 17 min of daylight.
The same hours are kept in Cape Fear and in nearby Lillington and Shawtown.
Questions and answers
- Under which time zone does Cape Fear fall?
- Cape Fear falls under America/New_York, with an offset of −4.
- Is the offset in Cape Fear changed for daylight saving?
- Yes.
- Tell me the sunrise hour in Cape Fear.
- The sunrise hour is 7:23 AM.