Gates in numbers
- Coordinates
- 36.5035, -76.7691
- Elevation
- 21 m above sea level
- Region
- North Carolina
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 267 km away
- Same name
- 10 more places in the world share this name
The current hour and minute in Gates, North Carolina, United States are shown here, in the America/New_York zone (−5).
Gates, United States
Wednesday, 4 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Gates
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Gates, North Carolina.
Sunrise 6:34 AM Solar noon 11:52 AM Sunset 5:09 PM Daylight 10 h 35 min Night 13 h 25 min Civil twilight 6:08 AM – 5:36 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.
Nearby, Sarem and Buckland go by the same clock as Gates.
The postal system lists 3 codes for Gates.
Gates falls within America/New_York, which places it UTC−5 from UTC. Daylight saving observed: No.
The sun will rise at 6:34 AM and set at 5:09 PM in Gates today. Daylight amounts to 10 h 35 min.