Chapel Hill in numbers
- Coordinates
- 35.9429, -82.7087
- Elevation
- 658 m above sea level
- Region
- North Carolina
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 599 km away
- Same name
- 38 more places in the world share this name
What follows is the current local time in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, in the America/New_York zone (−5).
Chapel Hill, United States
Sunday, 8 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Chapel Hill
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Chapel Hill.
Sunrise 7:01 AM Solar noon 12:16 PM Sunset 5:30 PM Daylight 10 h 29 min Night 13 h 31 min Civil twilight 6:34 AM – 5:57 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.
The zone in force in Chapel Hill is America/New_York, with an offset of UTC−5. Seasonal change: No.
Chapel Hill gets its sunrise at 7:01 AM and its sunset at 5:30 PM today. Daylight lasts a full 10 h 29 min.
Look nearby and you will see White Rock and Guntertown on the same clock as Chapel Hill.
Within Chapel Hill, postal codes number 6.