Salem in numbers
- Coordinates
- 35.6987, -81.6970
- Elevation
- 371 m above sea level
- Population
- 2 218
- Region
- North Carolina
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 544 km away
- Same name
- 128 more places in the world share this name
The present local time in Salem, North Carolina, United States is given below, for the America/New_York time zone (−5).
Salem, United States
Thursday, 5 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Salem
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Salem, North Carolina.
Sunrise 6:54 AM Solar noon 12:12 PM Sunset 5:29 PM Daylight 10 h 35 min Night 13 h 25 min Civil twilight 6:27 AM – 5:56 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.
Salem accounts for 12 postal codes.
Salem keeps time under America/New_York. That places it at UTC−5, with daylight saving time No.
Sunrise in Salem is at 6:54 AM today, and sunset comes at 5:29 PM. Daylight lasts 10 h 35 min.
Neighbouring Pumpkin Center and Burkemont keep the same hours as Salem.