Carthage in numbers
- Coordinates
- 36.2523, -85.9517
- Elevation
- 157 m above sea level
- Population
- 2 278
- Region
- Tennessee
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 838 km away
- Same name
- 19 more places in the world share this name
This is the current time in Carthage, Tennessee, United States, shown for the America/Chicago time zone (−6).
Carthage, United States
Sunday, 1 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Carthage
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Carthage keeps America/Chicago clock_time.
Sunrise 6:08 AM Solar noon 11:28 AM Sunset 4:49 PM Daylight 10 h 42 min Night 13 h 18 min Civil twilight 5:41 AM – 5:16 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.
Look nearby and you will see Smith County and South Carthage on the same clock as Carthage.
The number of postal codes covering Carthage is 10.
Time zone for Carthage: America/Chicago, running at UTC−6. Clocks change for daylight saving: No.
Carthage greets the sun at 6:08 AM and loses it at 4:49 PM today. Daylight runs to 10 h 42 min.