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What time is it in Rutherwood, North Carolina, United States

What follows is the current local time in Rutherwood, North Carolina, United States, in the America/New_York zone (−5).

Rutherwood, United States

Monday, 9 November 2026

UTC−5 · America/New_York

Local time in Rutherwood

UTC−5 · no daylight saving time

What the clock shows right now in Rutherwood.

The sun today

Sunrise 6:58 AM Solar noon 12:11 PM Sunset 5:24 PM Daylight 10 h 26 min Night 13 h 34 min Civil twilight 6:31 AM – 5:51 PM

Weather in Rutherwood right now

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Rutherwood and its neighbours

Bamboo Triplett Blairmont Laxon Moretz Sands Hillcrest Sorrento Skies Solo Rutherwood
Rutherwood at 36.2246, -81.5987 with the nearest towns within 6.9 km · open in OpenStreetMap

Postal codes

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.

Rutherwood in numbers

Coordinates
36.2246, -81.5987
Elevation
995 m above sea level
Country
United States, North America
Capital
Washington, D.C. — 500 km away
Same name
1 more places in the world share this name

Largest cities in North Carolina

Other places named Rutherwood

Same time zone — America/New_York

Nearby places

Rutherwood: clock, sun and surroundings

The sun is up at 6:58 AM in Rutherwood and down again at 5:24 PM. Between those times there are 10 h 26 min of daylight.

Close to Rutherwood, the towns of Bamboo and Triplett show the same time.

Postal areas within Rutherwood come to 6.

Local clocks in Rutherwood answer to America/New_York, set UTC−5 from UTC. Daylight saving time: No.

Questions and answers

Should America/New_York be used as the time zone for Rutherwood?
Yes, Rutherwood uses America/New_York, whose offset is −5.
Does Rutherwood switch to summer time during the year?
Daylight saving time observed in Rutherwood: No.
How late in the morning does the sun rise in Rutherwood?
It rises at 6:58 AM.
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