Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Current time in United States
Time zone: EDT (UTC/GMT -04:00) — America/New_York
| Local Clock Offset: Yesterday, -4 H |
| Time zone: (UTC/GMT -04:00) America/New_York |
Current Time in other Cities of United States
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Raleigh clocks, offsets and daylight saving
Local time here is EDT, which sits 4 hours behind UTC, written UTC-04:00. The canonical zone name is America/New_York, and that is what to pick from a time zone dropdown.
Daylight saving applies here. Clocks next move back 1 hour on Sunday, 01 November 2026, putting Raleigh on EST and changing its gap to every other zone listed below.
United States is not on a single clock: the 419 cities listed here fall across 10 time zones, so times elsewhere in the country will not match Raleigh.
Time difference between Raleigh and other cities
Current gap between Raleigh and cities people most often need to coordinate with. These figures already account for daylight saving where it applies.
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Raleigh is 3 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Raleigh is 5 hours behind |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Raleigh is 6 hours behind |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Raleigh is 8 hours behind |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Raleigh is 9 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Raleigh is 12 hours behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Raleigh is 13 hours behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Raleigh is 14 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Raleigh is 1 hour behind |
Best time to call Raleigh
Where the two working days actually meet, expressed in Raleigh local time.
| Sao Paulo | 09:00–16:00 in Raleigh | 7 hours overlap |
| Los Angeles | 12:00–17:00 in Raleigh | 5 hours overlap |
| London | 09:00–12:00 in Raleigh | 3 hours overlap |
| Paris | 09:00–11:00 in Raleigh | 2 hours overlap |
No shared working window exists with Dubai, Mumbai, Shanghai or Tokyo, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.
Cities on the same clock as Raleigh
No difference at all from Raleigh: the cities below share the America/New_York zone.
New York City Queens The Bronx Boston South Boston Staten Island Virginia Beach Tampa
Popular cities
| New York, United States |
| London, United Kingdom |
| Paris, France |
| Tokyo, Japan |
| Beijing, China |
| Sydney, Australia |
| Berlin, Germany |
| Moscow, Russia |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
| Singapore, Singapore |
| Los Angeles, United States |
| Chicago, United States |
| Toronto, Canada |
| Mexico City, Mexico |
| São Paulo, Brazil |
| Mumbai, India |
| Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| Seoul, South Korea |
| Istanbul, Turkey |
| Cairo, Egypt |
| Lagos, Nigeria |
| Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Madrid, Spain |
| Rome, Italy |