Dover in numbers
- Coordinates
- 35.2163, -77.4369
- Elevation
- 19 m above sea level
- Population
- 398
- Region
- North Carolina
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 411 km away
- Same name
- 55 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Dover, North Carolina, United States
This page keeps the current time in Dover, North Carolina, United States, according to the America/New_York zone (−4).
Dover, United States
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC−4 · America/New_York
Local time in Dover
UTC−4 · daylight saving time is active
What the clock shows right now in Dover.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:18 AM Solar noon 12:56 PM Sunset 6:35 PM Daylight 11 h 18 min Night 12 h 42 min Civil twilight 6:52 AM – 7:01 PM
Weather in Dover right now
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Dover and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 02030
- 03820
- 03821
- 03822
- 07801
- 07802
- 17315
- 19901
- 19903
- 19904
- 19905
- 19906
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 Dover
- Dover England, United Kingdom
- Dover Delaware, United States
- Dover New Hampshire, United States
- Dover New Jersey, United States
- Dover Ohio, 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
- Wise Forks — 6.7 km
- Royal Acres — 8.8 km
- Oak Lawn — 10.8 km
- Closs — 11.0 km
- Cove City — 11.0 km
- Kinfield Village — 11.4 km
About the time in Dover
Wise Forks and Royal Acres lie near Dover and keep identical time.
The mail network in Dover covers 12 codes.
Dover runs on America/New_York, which sits UTC−4 relative to Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving in effect: Yes.
Sunrise arrives in Dover at 7:18 AM today and the sun goes down at 6:35 PM. That gives the day 11 h 18 min of light.
Questions and answers
- What zone is used to calculate the time in Dover?
- The time in Dover is calculated using America/New_York, with an offset of −4.
- Is daylight saving time used in Dover?
- Yes.
- What time is last light in Dover?
- The sun sets at 6:35 PM.