Central Area in numbers
- Coordinates
- 36.5071, -79.7448
- Elevation
- 198 m above sea level
- Region
- North Carolina
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 357 km away
- Same name
- 1 more places in the world share this name
On this page the local time of Central Area, North Carolina, United States is updated live, in the America/New_York zone (−5).
Central Area, United States
Tuesday, 3 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Central Area
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Central Area.
Sunrise 6:45 AM Solar noon 12:04 PM Sunset 5:22 PM Daylight 10 h 37 min Night 13 h 23 min Civil twilight 6:19 AM – 5:49 PM
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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.
Local clocks in Central Area follow the America/New_York zone, UTC−5. Do they shift for daylight saving? No.
Daylight arrives in Central Area at 6:45 AM and departs at 5:22 PM. It lasts 10 h 37 min today.
Nearby, Meadow Summit and Creekridge go by the same clock as Central Area.
5 postal codes are listed for Central Area.