Lake Forest in numbers
- Coordinates
- 34.2155, -77.9375
- Elevation
- 10 m above sea level
- Region
- North Carolina
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 527 km away
- Same name
- 22 more places in the world share this name
The clock for Lake Forest, North Carolina, United States is kept here in the America/New_York time zone (−5).
Lake Forest, United States
Sunday, 8 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Lake Forest
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Lake Forest keeps America/New_York clock_time.
Sunrise 6:39 AM Solar noon 11:57 AM Sunset 5:14 PM Daylight 10 h 35 min Night 13 h 25 min Civil twilight 6:13 AM – 5:40 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.
2 postal codes serve Lake Forest.
The time zone here in Lake Forest is America/New_York, offset UTC−5. Does daylight saving apply? No.
Lake Forest has sunrise at 6:39 AM today and sunset at 5:14 PM. Light holds for 10 h 35 min.
Wilmington and Delgado, both nearby, hold the same time as Lake Forest.