Fairplains in numbers
- Coordinates
- 36.1985, -81.1529
- Elevation
- 391 m above sea level
- Population
- 2 120
- Region
- North Carolina
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 471 km away
What time is it in Fairplains, North Carolina, United States
This page shows, minute by minute, the local time in Fairplains, North Carolina, United States, in the America/New_York zone (−4).
Fairplains, United States
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC−4 · America/New_York
Local time in Fairplains
UTC−4 · daylight saving time is active
Fairplains keeps America/New_York clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:33 AM Solar noon 1:11 PM Sunset 6:49 PM Daylight 11 h 16 min Night 12 h 44 min Civil twilight 7:07 AM – 7:15 PM
Weather in Fairplains right now
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Fairplains and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 28659 North Wilkesboro — 2.2 km away
- 28697 Wilkesboro — 7.0 km away
- 28651 Millers Creek — 8.7 km away
- 28656 North Wilkesboro — 10.6 km away
- 28635 Hays — 12.8 km away
- 28649 Mc Grady — 12.9 km away
- 28654 Moravian Falls — 13.5 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
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
- Hilltop Acres — 0.4 km
- Wilkes County — 1.2 km
- Sherwood Forest — 1.3 km
- Wallace Acres — 1.7 km
- Mountain Manor — 1.8 km
- Sunset Falls — 2.0 km
About the time in Fairplains
7 postal codes serve Fairplains.
The clock in Fairplains is set to America/New_York, offset UTC−4. Daylight saving time in use: Yes.
Today the sun rises over Fairplains at 7:33 AM and sets at 6:49 PM. That is 11 h 16 min of daylight in all.
Whatever the hour in Fairplains, it is the same in Hilltop Acres and Wilkes County.
Questions and answers
- Which local time zone does Fairplains follow?
- Fairplains follows America/New_York, with an offset of −4.
- Does Fairplains observe a seasonal time shift?
- Daylight saving in Fairplains: Yes.
- Please give the sunrise time for Fairplains.
- The sun rises at 7:33 AM.