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 time is it in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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.
The sun today
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
Weather in Chapel Hill right now
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Chapel Hill and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 27514
- 27515
- 27516
- 27517
- 27599
- 37034
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 Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill North Carolina, United States
- Chapel Hill Queensland, Australia
- Chapel Hill Tennessee, United States
- Chapel Hill England, United Kingdom
- Chapel Hill Virginia, 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
- White Rock — 1.3 km
- Guntertown — 1.5 km
- Cutshalltown — 2.6 km
- Belva — 3.2 km
- Big Laurel — 3.4 km
- Revere — 4.5 km
Chapel Hill: clock, sun and surroundings
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.
Questions and answers
- What time zone includes Chapel Hill?
- The time zone that includes Chapel Hill is America/New_York, with an offset of −5.
- Is the offset in Chapel Hill changed for daylight saving?
- No.
- What time does the sun rise in Chapel Hill?
- The sun rises in Chapel Hill at 7:01 AM.