The exact time in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States is given here, for the America/New_York time 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
Local time in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Sunrise 6:47 AM Solar noon 12:01 PM Sunset 5:16 PM Daylight 10 h 29 min Night 13 h 31 min Civil twilight 6:20 AM – 5:43 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.
6 codes are used to address mail in Chapel Hill.
Chapel Hill marks time with America/New_York at an offset of UTC−5. Does the area change clocks seasonally? No.
At Chapel Hill the sun clears the horizon at 6:47 AM and sinks again at 5:16 PM. The gap between them is 10 h 29 min.
Neighbours of Chapel Hill such as Tenney Circle and Colonial Heights share its clock.