Valdese in numbers
- Coordinates
- 35.7407, -81.5631
- Elevation
- 368 m above sea level
- Population
- 4 459
- Region
- North Carolina
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 532 km away
Local time right now in Valdese, North Carolina, United States appears above, in the America/New_York time zone (−5).
Valdese, United States
Sunday, 8 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Valdese
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Valdese keeps America/New_York clock_time.
Sunrise 6:56 AM Solar noon 12:11 PM Sunset 5:26 PM Daylight 10 h 30 min Night 13 h 30 min Civil twilight 6:30 AM – 5:53 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.
Postal areas within Valdese come to 1.
Valdese falls within America/New_York, which places it UTC−5 from UTC. Daylight saving observed: No.
The sun is up at 6:56 AM in Valdese and down again at 5:26 PM. Between those times there are 10 h 30 min of daylight.
Places close to Valdese, among them Flat Gap and Drexel, share its time.