Rockwood in numbers
- Coordinates
- 36.0387, -79.4020
- Elevation
- 174 m above sea level
- Region
- North Carolina
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 380 km away
- Same name
- 23 more places in the world share this name
See what time it currently is in Rockwood, North Carolina, United States — the time zone there is America/New_York (−5).
Rockwood, United States
Monday, 9 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Rockwood
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Rockwood.
Sunrise 6:49 AM Solar noon 12:03 PM Sunset 5:16 PM Daylight 10 h 27 min Night 13 h 33 min Civil twilight 6:22 AM – 5:43 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 local zone in Rockwood is America/New_York, standing at UTC−5. Whether daylight saving applies: No.
Today's schedule for Rockwood: sunrise 6:49 AM, sunset 5:16 PM. That gives 10 h 27 min of daylight.
Nearby places like Forest Hills and Alamance County are on Rockwood time.
Rockwood contains 6 postal codes.