Wrightsville Beach in numbers
- Coordinates
- 34.2085, -77.7964
- Elevation
- 1 m above sea level
- Population
- 2 564
- Region
- North Carolina
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 526 km away
What time is it in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, United States
This page reports the local time in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, United States, set by the America/New_York time zone (−4).
Wrightsville Beach, United States
Saturday, 17 October 2026
UTC−4 · America/New_York
Local time in Wrightsville Beach
UTC−4 · daylight saving time is active
What the clock shows right now in Wrightsville Beach.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:19 AM Solar noon 12:58 PM Sunset 6:36 PM Daylight 11 h 17 min Night 12 h 43 min Civil twilight 6:54 AM – 7:01 PM
Weather in Wrightsville Beach right now
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Wrightsville Beach and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 28480
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
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
- Channel Acres — 0.5 km
- Shore Acres — 0.6 km
- Parmele Isles — 1.4 km
- Shell Island — 2.1 km
- Edgewater Estates — 2.2 km
- Wrightsville — 2.3 km
Local time details for Wrightsville Beach
The local time of Wrightsville Beach is shared by neighbouring Channel Acres and Shore Acres.
Postal areas within Wrightsville Beach come to 1.
Wrightsville Beach marks time with America/New_York at an offset of UTC−4. Does the area change clocks seasonally? Yes.
Sunrise time for Wrightsville Beach today is 7:19 AM; sunset time is 6:36 PM. Daylight fills 11 h 17 min.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone applies to Wrightsville Beach?
- The time zone that applies to Wrightsville Beach is America/New_York, with an offset of −4.
- Is the hour in Wrightsville Beach changed for daylight saving at any time of year?
- Yes.
- Sunset in Wrightsville Beach is at what time?
- At 6:36 PM.