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What time is it in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, United States

What follows is the current local time in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, United States, in the America/New_York zone (−5).

Wilkesboro, United States

9:31:44 AM

Monday, 9 November 2026

UTC−5 · America/New_York

Local time in Wilkesboro

UTC−5 · no daylight saving time

Wilkesboro keeps America/New_York clock_time.

The sun today

Sunrise 6:56 AM Solar noon 12:10 PM Sunset 5:23 PM Daylight 10 h 26 min Night 13 h 34 min Civil twilight 6:29 AM – 5:50 PM

Weather in Wilkesboro right now

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Wilkesboro and its neighbours

Wilkesboro at 36.1460, -81.1606 with the nearest towns within 3.5 km · open in OpenStreetMap

Postal codes

28697

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.

Wilkesboro in numbers

Coordinates: 36.1460, -81.1606
Elevation: 312 m above sea level
Population: 3 531
Region: North Carolina
Country: United States, North America
Capital: Washington, D.C. — 475 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 Wilkesboro

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Same time zone — America/New_York

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Nearby places

Knollwood — 0.6 km
Robinet (historical) — 1.4 km
Westwood Hills — 1.7 km
Hilorn (historical) — 1.8 km
North Wilkesboro — 1.8 km
Forest Hills — 1.9 km

Time and daylight in Wilkesboro

Wilkesboro carries the America/New_York zone, offset UTC−5. Whether daylight saving time is applied: No.

Today's schedule for Wilkesboro: sunrise 6:56 AM, sunset 5:23 PM. That gives 10 h 26 min of daylight.

Knollwood and Robinet (historical) are near Wilkesboro and do not differ from it in time.

Records show 1 postal code for Wilkesboro.

Questions and answers

Under which time zone does Wilkesboro fall?: Wilkesboro falls under America/New_York, with an offset of −5.
Is the hour in Wilkesboro changed for daylight saving at any time of year?: No.
Can you tell me the sunrise time in Wilkesboro?: In Wilkesboro the sun rises at 6:56 AM.