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What time is it in Southern Shores, North Carolina, United States

Check the current local time in Southern Shores, North Carolina, United States, which sits in the America/New_York time zone (−4).

Southern Shores, United States

12:06:17 AM

Saturday, 17 October 2026

UTC−4 · America/New_York

Local time in Southern Shores

UTC−4 · daylight saving time is active

Local time in Southern Shores, North Carolina.

The sun today

Sunrise 7:12 AM Solar noon 12:49 PM Sunset 6:26 PM Daylight 11 h 14 min Night 12 h 46 min Civil twilight 6:47 AM – 6:52 PM

Weather in Southern Shores right now

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Southern Shores and its neighbours

Southern Shores at 36.1390, -75.7316 with the nearest towns within 3.5 km · open in OpenStreetMap

Postal codes

27949 Kitty Hawk — 8.6 km away
27941 Harbinger — 8.7 km away
27966 Powells Point — 8.8 km away
27964 Point Harbor — 9.0 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.

Southern Shores in numbers

Coordinates: 36.1390, -75.7316
Elevation: 5 m above sea level
Population: 2 867
Region: North Carolina
Country: United States, North America
Capital: Washington, D.C. — 327 km away
Same name: 1 more places in the world share this name

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 Southern Shores

Southern Shores North Carolina, United States

Same time zone — America/New_York

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Nearby places

Hargraves Bench — 1.5 km
The Tides — 1.7 km
Jay Crest — 1.9 km
Tuckahoe — 2.0 km
Sand Dollar Shores — 2.1 km
Sea Hawk — 2.1 km

Southern Shores: clock, sun and surroundings

Southern Shores is split into 4 postal code areas.

For Southern Shores the applicable zone is America/New_York, running UTC−4. Daylight saving time: Yes.

Southern Shores sees first light at 7:12 AM today and the sun sets at 6:26 PM. Daylight totals 11 h 14 min.

Nothing changes on the clock between Southern Shores and neighbouring Hargraves Bench or The Tides.

Questions and answers

Which time zone should I use for Southern Shores?: Use America/New_York for Southern Shores; its offset is −4.
Are daylight saving rules used in Southern Shores?: Daylight saving time in Southern Shores: Yes.
Please give the sunset time for Southern Shores.: The sun sets at 6:26 PM.