Shelton in numbers
- Coordinates
- 36.5357, -79.4581
- Elevation
- 215 m above sea level
- Region
- North Carolina
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 338 km away
- Same name
- 13 more places in the world share this name
This page tells you the time right now in Shelton, North Carolina, United States, in the America/New_York zone (−5).
Shelton, United States
Sunday, 8 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Shelton
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Shelton.
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.
Shelton appears under 3 postal codes.
Shelton keeps the America/New_York zone, which is UTC−5. Whether summer time is observed: No.
The sun shows itself over Shelton at 6:49 AM and sets at 5:16 PM today. That is 10 h 27 min of light.
Shelton shares its time with neighbouring Whitetown and Stokesland.