Cooktown in numbers
- Coordinates
- 36.0637, -82.1571
- Elevation
- 993 m above sea level
- Region
- North Carolina
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 551 km away
- Same name
- 7 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Cooktown, North Carolina, United States
This page shows, minute by minute, the local time in Cooktown, North Carolina, United States, in the America/New_York zone (−5).
Cooktown, United States
Sunday, 8 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Cooktown
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Cooktown.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:59 AM Solar noon 12:14 PM Sunset 5:28 PM Daylight 10 h 29 min Night 13 h 31 min Civil twilight 6:32 AM – 5:55 PM
Weather in Cooktown right now
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Cooktown and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 28705 Bakersville — 4.1 km away
- 28740 Green Mountain — 12.0 km away
- 37687 Roan Mountain — 14.4 km away
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 Cooktown
- Cooktown Queensland, Australia
- Cooktown Georgia, United States
- Cooktown Georgia, United States
- Cooktown Kentucky, United States
- Cooktown Louisiana, 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
- Glen Ayre — 3.6 km
- Cloudland (historical) — 5.0 km
- Honeycutt — 5.0 km
- Bakersville — 5.3 km
- Mitchell County — 5.6 km
- Buladean — 6.0 km
Local time details for Cooktown
Nearby, Glen Ayre and Honeycutt go by the same clock as Cooktown.
Cooktown works with 3 postal codes.
The zone in force in Cooktown is America/New_York, with an offset of UTC−5. Seasonal change: No.
Today in Cooktown the sun appears at 6:59 AM and sets again at 5:28 PM. Daylight holds for 10 h 29 min.
Questions and answers
- Under which time zone does Cooktown fall?
- Cooktown falls under America/New_York, with an offset of −5.
- Does Cooktown follow daylight saving time?
- No.
- What is the local sunrise time in Cooktown?
- Local sunrise is 6:59 AM.