Franklin in numbers
- Coordinates
- 36.4893, -80.6337
- Elevation
- 343 m above sea level
- Region
- North Carolina
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 414 km away
- Same name
- 71 more places in the world share this name
What follows is the current local time in Franklin, North Carolina, United States, in the America/New_York zone (−5).
Franklin, United States
Monday, 9 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Franklin
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Franklin, North Carolina.
Sunrise 6:55 AM Solar noon 12:08 PM Sunset 5:20 PM Daylight 10 h 25 min Night 13 h 35 min Civil twilight 6:28 AM – 5:47 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.
Postal codes assigned across Franklin total 12.
Local time in Franklin comes from the America/New_York zone, UTC−5. Daylight saving time: No.
Today's times for Franklin: the sun is up at 6:55 AM and down at 5:20 PM. That means 10 h 25 min of daylight.
Whatever the hour in Franklin, it is the same in Toast and Mount Airy.