Jackson in numbers
- Coordinates
- 34.8668, -80.6834
- Elevation
- 195 m above sea level
- Region
- North Carolina
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 553 km away
- Same name
- 54 more places in the world share this name
The reading below is the local time in Jackson, North Carolina, United States, taken from the America/New_York zone (−5).
Jackson, United States
Sunday, 8 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Jackson
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Jackson keeps America/New_York clock_time.
Sunrise 6:51 AM Solar noon 12:08 PM Sunset 5:24 PM Daylight 10 h 33 min Night 13 h 27 min Civil twilight 6:25 AM – 5:51 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.
The postal code count for Jackson is 12.
Jackson is served by the America/New_York time zone, offset UTC−5. Daylight saving time applies: No.
Today in Jackson, daylight opens at 6:51 AM and closes at 5:24 PM. That span measures 10 h 33 min.
The same hours are kept in Jackson and in nearby Jaars and Roughedge.