East Franklin in numbers
- Coordinates
- 35.1907, -83.3638
- Elevation
- 630 m above sea level
- Region
- North Carolina
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 696 km away
- Same name
- 4 more places in the world share this name
Right now in East Franklin, North Carolina, United States the local time is the one shown here, in the America/New_York zone (−5).
East Franklin, United States
Monday, 9 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in East Franklin
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in East Franklin.
Sunrise 7:04 AM Solar noon 12:18 PM Sunset 5:33 PM Daylight 10 h 30 min Night 13 h 30 min Civil twilight 6:37 AM – 6:00 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.
East Franklin sits in the America/New_York time zone, which runs at UTC−5. Daylight saving time: No.
The sun shows itself over East Franklin at 7:04 AM and sets at 5:33 PM today. That is 10 h 30 min of light.
Franklin and Dean lie near East Franklin and keep identical time.
The number of postal codes covering East Franklin is 2.