Clay in numbers
- Coordinates
- 36.2426, -78.5878
- Elevation
- 113 m above sea level
- Region
- North Carolina
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 325 km away
- Same name
- 13 more places in the world share this name
Find out what time it is now in Clay, North Carolina, United States — the local clock runs on America/New_York (−5).
Clay, United States
Tuesday, 3 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Clay
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Clay keeps America/New_York clock_time.
Sunrise 6:40 AM Solar noon 11:59 AM Sunset 5:18 PM Daylight 10 h 38 min Night 13 h 22 min Civil twilight 6:14 AM – 5:45 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 register holds 4 postal codes for Clay.
The time zone assigned to Clay is America/New_York, held at UTC−5. Daylight saving time applies: No.
In Clay today the sun is out from 6:40 AM until 5:18 PM. That comes to 10 h 38 min of daylight.
Belltown and Dickerson, both nearby, hold the same time as Clay.