Hounds Ear in numbers
- Coordinates
- 36.1779, -81.7451
- Elevation
- 882 m above sea level
- Region
- North Carolina
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 513 km away
What time is it in Hounds Ear, North Carolina, United States
The time you see here is the local time in Hounds Ear, North Carolina, United States, in the America/New_York time zone (−5).
Hounds Ear, United States
Sunday, 8 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Hounds Ear
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Hounds Ear.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:58 AM Solar noon 12:12 PM Sunset 5:26 PM Daylight 10 h 28 min Night 13 h 32 min Civil twilight 6:31 AM – 5:53 PM
Weather in Hounds Ear right now
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Hounds Ear and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 28691 Valle Crucis — 4.6 km away
- 28605 Blowing Rock — 6.2 km away
- 28608 Boone — 7.7 km away
- 28607 Boone — 8.2 km away
- 28604 Banner Elk — 8.7 km away
- 28692 Vilas — 9.0 km away
- 28679 Sugar Grove — 13.0 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
- Foscoe — 2.6 km
- Valle Crucis — 4.6 km
- Ansley Heights — 5.3 km
- Matney — 6.1 km
- Boone Fork — 6.2 km
- Lovill — 6.4 km
Local time details for Hounds Ear
Sunrise time for Hounds Ear today is 6:58 AM; sunset time is 5:26 PM. Daylight fills 10 h 28 min.
Nearby Foscoe and Valle Crucis follow the same clock as Hounds Ear.
Hounds Ear carries 7 postal codes.
Hounds Ear stands in America/New_York, an offset of UTC−5 from Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving: No.
Questions and answers
- What is the time zone for Hounds Ear?
- The time zone for Hounds Ear is America/New_York, with an offset of −5.
- Does the clock in Hounds Ear move for summer time?
- No.
- When does the sun go down in Hounds Ear?
- Sunset in Hounds Ear is at 5:26 PM.