Sands in numbers
- Coordinates
- 36.2510, -81.6482
- Elevation
- 993 m above sea level
- Region
- North Carolina
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 502 km away
- Same name
- 7 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Sands, North Carolina, United States
This page shows, minute by minute, the local time in Sands, North Carolina, United States, in the America/New_York zone (−4).
Sands, United States
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC−4 · America/New_York
Local time in Sands
UTC−4 · daylight saving time is active
Sands keeps America/New_York clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:35 AM Solar noon 1:13 PM Sunset 6:51 PM Daylight 11 h 16 min Night 12 h 44 min Civil twilight 7:09 AM – 7:17 PM
Weather in Sands right now
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Sands and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 28607 Boone — 4.4 km away
- 28608 Boone — 4.5 km away
- 28684 Todd — 9.8 km away
- 28692 Vilas — 10.5 km away
- 28698 Zionville — 11.7 km away
- 28605 Blowing Rock — 13.6 km away
- 37691 Trade — 16.3 km away
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 Sands
- Sands Bavaria, Germany
- Sands England, United Kingdom
- Sands England, United Kingdom
- Sands California, United States
- Sands Illinois, 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
- Moretz — 2.9 km
- Hillcrest — 3.8 km
- Solo — 4.4 km
- Boone — 4.5 km
- Grandview Heights — 4.8 km
- Watauga County — 4.9 km
Local time details for Sands
Neighbours of Sands such as Moretz and Hillcrest share its clock.
7 postal codes have been allocated to Sands.
Sands uses the America/New_York time zone with a UTC−4 offset. Whether daylight saving time is used: Yes.
Today Sands gets sunrise at 7:35 AM and sunset at 6:51 PM. That leaves 11 h 16 min of daylight.
Questions and answers
- What time zone does local time in Sands follow?
- Local time in Sands follows America/New_York, with an offset of −4.
- Does daylight saving time apply in Sands?
- Yes.
- Sunset in Sands is at what time?
- At 6:51 PM.