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What time is it in Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States

The page gives the present local time in Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States, whose time zone is America/New_York (−5).

Hillsborough, United States

7:49:00 AM

Wednesday, 4 November 2026

UTC−5 · America/New_York

Local time in Hillsborough

UTC−5 · no daylight saving time

Hillsborough keeps America/New_York clock_time.

The sun today

Sunrise 6:43 AM Solar noon 12:01 PM Sunset 5:19 PM Daylight 10 h 36 min Night 13 h 24 min Civil twilight 6:16 AM – 5:46 PM

Weather in Hillsborough right now

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Hillsborough and its neighbours

Hillsborough at 36.0754, -79.0997 with the nearest towns within 5.9 km · open in OpenStreetMap

Postal codes

03244
08844
27278

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.

Hillsborough in numbers

Coordinates: 36.0754, -79.0997
Elevation: 166 m above sea level
Population: 6 415
Region: North Carolina
Country: United States, North America
Capital: Washington, D.C. — 363 km away
Same name: 20 more places in the world share this name

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

Other places named Hillsborough

Hillsborough New Jersey, United States
Hillsborough Auckland, New Zealand
Hillsborough California, United States
Hillsborough Nebraska, United States
Hillsborough Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Same time zone — America/New_York

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Nearby places

West Hillsborough — 1.8 km
Fairview — 1.8 km
Eastwood — 2.2 km
Dimmocks Mill — 2.2 km
Orange County — 2.4 km
Cornwallis Hills — 3.2 km

Time and daylight in Hillsborough

Sunrise today is 6:43 AM in Hillsborough, with sunset at 5:19 PM. That works out to 10 h 36 min of light.

Neighbouring West Hillsborough and Fairview sit in the same time as Hillsborough.

Hillsborough is split into 3 postal code areas.

The zone name for Hillsborough is America/New_York and the offset is UTC−5. Daylight saving time: No.

Questions and answers

Which time zone is assigned to Hillsborough?: The time zone assigned to Hillsborough is America/New_York, with an offset of −5.
Do clocks change in Hillsborough during the year?: Daylight saving in Hillsborough: No.
How early in the evening does the sun set in Hillsborough?: It sets at 5:19 PM.