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What time is it in Clay, North Carolina, United States

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.

The sun today

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

Weather in Clay right now

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Clay and its neighbours

Belltown Dickerson Tar River Fairport Providence Oxford Watkins Granville County Horner Lynnbrook Estates Clay
Clay at 36.2426, -78.5878 with the nearest towns within 10.6 km · open in OpenStreetMap

Postal codes

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.

Clay in numbers

Coordinates
36.2426, -78.5878
Elevation
113 m above sea level
Country
United States, North America
Capital
Washington, D.C. — 325 km away
Same name
13 more places in the world share this name

Largest cities in North Carolina

Other places named Clay

Same time zone — America/New_York

Nearby places

Time and daylight in Clay

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.

Questions and answers

What time zone applies in Clay?
In Clay, the applicable time zone is America/New_York, with an offset of −5.
Does the clock in Clay stay the same all year?
Daylight saving time in Clay: No.
What time does the sun rise in Clay?
The sun rises in Clay at 6:40 AM.
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