King in numbers
- Coordinates
- 36.2807, -80.3592
- Elevation
- 341 m above sea level
- Population
- 7 059
- Region
- North Carolina
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 413 km away
- Same name
- 20 more places in the world share this name
Check the current local time in King, North Carolina, United States, which sits in the America/New_York time zone (−5).
King, United States
Sunday, 1 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in King
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
King keeps America/New_York clock_time.
Sunrise 6:45 AM Solar noon 12:06 PM Sunset 5:27 PM Daylight 10 h 41 min Night 13 h 19 min Civil twilight 6:19 AM – 5:53 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.
A total of 2 postal codes belong to King.
King sets its clocks by America/New_York, which runs UTC−5. Daylight saving time here: No.
Sunrise comes to King at 6:45 AM and sunset at 5:27 PM today. Together that makes 10 h 41 min of light.
The same hours are kept in King and in nearby Dalton and Tobaccoville.