Higgs in numbers
- Coordinates
- 35.6063, -77.3886
- Elevation
- 20 m above sea level
- Region
- North Carolina
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 367 km away
What time is it in Higgs, North Carolina, United States
The current local time in Higgs, North Carolina, United States is displayed here for the America/New_York time zone (−5).
Higgs, United States
Monday, 2 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Higgs
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Higgs, North Carolina.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:33 AM Solar noon 11:54 AM Sunset 5:15 PM Daylight 10 h 42 min Night 13 h 18 min Civil twilight 6:07 AM – 5:41 PM
Weather in Higgs right now
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Higgs and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 27834 Greenville — 1.6 km away
- 27833 Greenville — 2.9 km away
- 27836 Greenville — 2.9 km away
- 27835 Greenville — 3.8 km away
- 27858 Greenville — 4.2 km away
- 28590 Winterville — 8.1 km away
- 27879 Simpson — 10.5 km away
- 27884 Stokes — 15.6 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
- Biltmore — 0.6 km
- Paige — 1.1 km
- Carolina Heights — 1.4 km
- Pitt County — 1.9 km
- Greenbrier — 1.9 km
- Stratford — 2.0 km
About the time in Higgs
Local timekeeping in Higgs uses America/New_York, equal to UTC−5. Summer clock change: No.
The sky over Higgs lightens at 6:33 AM and the sun sets at 5:15 PM. Daylight runs for 10 h 42 min today.
Neighbouring places Biltmore and Paige run on Higgs time.
Higgs is served by a set of 8 postal codes.
Questions and answers
- Should America/New_York be used as the time zone for Higgs?
- Yes, Higgs uses America/New_York, whose offset is −5.
- Do the clocks in Higgs go back at any point?
- No.
- Sunrise in Higgs is at what time?
- At 6:33 AM.