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Sunrise and Sunset Times in North Carolina

Find today's sunrise, sunset, golden hour, and twilight times for cities in North Carolina. Select a city below or use the search to find your location.

Largest Cities

Charlotte Raleigh Winston-Salem Durham Greensboro
Northernmost city
Kernersville
36.1°N · 14h 37m on the June solstice
Southernmost city
Leland
34.2°N · 14h 26m on the June solstice
Most seasonal
Kernersville
4h 55m solstice-to-solstice swing
Median city vs. nation
4h 50m swing
national median 5h 16m
Sun furthest behind the clock
Asheville
solar noon ≈ 30 min after 12:00

All Cities

Longest and shortest day are the June and December solstice day lengths at each city's own coordinates. Sun vs. clock is how far mean solar noon falls from 12:00 standard time — negative means the Sun peaks before the clock says noon.

City Longest day Shortest day Swing Sun vs. clock Urban pop.
Charlotte Mecklenburg area 14h 32m 9h 47m 4h 45m +23 min 1,488,249
Raleigh Wake area 14h 36m 9h 44m 4h 52m +15 min 1,179,118
Winston-Salem Forsyth area 14h 37m 9h 42m 4h 55m +21 min 443,598
Durham Durham area 14h 36m 9h 43m 4h 54m +16 min 420,564
Greensboro Guilford area 14h 37m 9h 42m 4h 55m +19 min 342,060
Fayetteville Cumberland area 14h 31m 9h 48m 4h 44m +16 min 325,349
Concord Cabarrus area 14h 33m 9h 46m 4h 47m +23 min 299,345
Asheville Buncombe area 14h 34m 9h 45m 4h 49m +30 min 295,184
Wilmington New Hanover area 14h 26m 9h 52m 4h 34m +12 min 285,611
Hickory Catawba area 14h 35m 9h 44m 4h 51m +25 min 213,375
Gastonia Gaston area 14h 32m 9h 47m 4h 45m +25 min 181,152
Cary Wake area 14h 35m 9h 44m 4h 51m +15 min 179,306
High Point Guilford area 14h 36m 9h 43m 4h 54m +20 min 175,377
Burlington Alamance area 14h 37m 9h 42m 4h 55m +18 min 152,375
Greenville Pitt area 14h 34m 9h 45m 4h 49m +10 min 127,632
Jacksonville Onslow area 14h 29m 9h 50m 4h 40m +10 min 111,529
Apex Wake area 14h 35m 9h 44m 4h 51m +15 min 70,630
Huntersville Mecklenburg area 14h 33m 9h 46m 4h 47m +23 min 63,969
Chapel Hill Orange area 14h 36m 9h 43m 4h 53m +16 min 61,607
Kannapolis Cabarrus area 14h 34m 9h 46m 4h 48m +23 min 57,890
Rocky Mount Nash area 14h 36m 9h 43m 4h 53m +11 min 54,297
Wake Forest Wake area 14h 36m 9h 43m 4h 53m +14 min 52,844
Mooresville Iredell area 14h 34m 9h 45m 4h 49m +23 min 52,381
Wilson Wilson area 14h 35m 9h 44m 4h 51m +12 min 48,370
Holly Springs Wake area 14h 35m 9h 45m 4h 50m +15 min 45,248
Indian Trail Union area 14h 31m 9h 48m 4h 43m +23 min 42,036
Fuquay-Varina Wake area 14h 34m 9h 45m 4h 49m +15 min 40,485
Monroe Union area 14h 31m 9h 48m 4h 43m +22 min 36,759
Salisbury Rowan area 14h 35m 9h 45m 4h 50m +22 min 35,825
Garner Wake area 14h 35m 9h 44m 4h 50m +14 min 34,473
Goldsboro Wayne area 14h 33m 9h 46m 4h 47m +12 min 34,383
Cornelius Mecklenburg area 14h 33m 9h 46m 4h 48m +24 min 32,783
New Bern Craven area 14h 31m 9h 48m 4h 44m +8 min 32,734
Sanford Lee area 14h 34m 9h 46m 4h 48m +17 min 31,478
Morrisville Wake area 14h 36m 9h 44m 4h 52m +15 min 31,422
Matthews Mecklenburg area 14h 31m 9h 47m 4h 44m +23 min 30,577
Statesville Iredell area 14h 35m 9h 44m 4h 51m +23 min 29,894
Leland Brunswick area 14h 26m 9h 52m 4h 34m +12 min 29,607
Clayton Johnston area 14h 35m 9h 45m 4h 50m +14 min 29,320
Kernersville Forsyth area 14h 37m 9h 42m 4h 55m +20 min 27,830
Asheboro Randolph area 14h 35m 9h 44m 4h 51m +19 min 27,580
Mint Hill Mecklenburg area 14h 32m 9h 47m 4h 45m +23 min 27,556
Thomasville Davidson area 14h 36m 9h 43m 4h 52m +20 min 27,321

Sunrise and Sunset in North Carolina

The 43 North Carolina cities listed here span 1.9° of latitude, from Leland in the south (34.2°N) to Kernersville in the north (36.1°N). On the June solstice that puts about 14h 37m of daylight over Kernersville against 14h 26m over Leland — a 11m difference inside one state. In December the gap reverses, and the southern cities are the ones holding more light.

The median North Carolina city swings 4h 50m between the solstices against a national median of 5h 16m, so North Carolina has a 26m gentler year of daylight than a typical American city.

Seasons bite hardest in Kernersville, where daylight swings 4h 55m between the solstices, and least in Leland at 4h 34m. The table above lists both figures for every city, so you can see where any town falls between those two extremes.

North Carolina sits entirely in Eastern Time. Longitude decides how a city's clock lines up with its Sun: Asheville sits furthest west inside its zone, which puts mean solar noon about 30 minutes after clock noon and gives it the state's latest-running evenings for its longitude.

Each city page carries that city's full profile: today's sunrise and sunset on a live tracker, a twelve-month table of times, the dates of the year's earliest and latest sunsets, the Sun's midday height by season, a golden-hour calendar, clear-sky solar-energy figures, and where the city ranks against the rest of the country.