Ruth in numbers
- Coordinates
- 35.3821, -81.9471
- Elevation
- 316 m above sea level
- Population
- 428
- Region
- North Carolina
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 585 km away
- Same name
- 14 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Ruth, North Carolina, United States
Find the present-moment local time in Ruth, North Carolina, United States, which uses America/New_York (−5).
Ruth, United States
Monday, 2 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Ruth
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Ruth, North Carolina.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:51 AM Solar noon 12:12 PM Sunset 5:34 PM Daylight 10 h 42 min Night 13 h 18 min Civil twilight 6:25 AM – 6:00 PM
Weather in Ruth right now
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Ruth and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 39662
- 48470
- 89319
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
Other places named Ruth
- Ruth Nevada, United States
- Ruth California, United States
- Ruth Alabama, United States
- Ruth Arkansas, United States
- Ruth West Virginia, United States
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
- Thermal Valley — 1.2 km
- Rutherfordton — 1.7 km
- Fernwood — 1.7 km
- Spindale — 2.9 km
- Rutherford County — 3.3 km
- Ellington Heights — 3.8 km
About the time in Ruth
Sunrise comes to Ruth at 6:51 AM and sunset at 5:34 PM today. Together that makes 10 h 42 min of light.
In Thermal Valley and Rutherfordton the clock agrees with Ruth.
Ruth operates with 3 postal codes.
The time standard for Ruth is America/New_York at UTC−5. Daylight saving time applies here: No.
Questions and answers
- What should I enter as the time zone for Ruth?
- Enter America/New_York as the time zone for Ruth; its offset is −5.
- Will the time in Ruth move forward or back for daylight saving?
- Daylight saving time in Ruth: No.
- Both sunrise and sunset in Ruth — what times?
- 6:51 AM and 5:34 PM.